What They Said

“Faith is getting right out of yourself and getting into Christ.”

Charles Spurgeon

“The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of "Bible-readers" whose only Bible is the Christian.”

“How sad is the condition of all who have gone through no spiritual change, whose hearts are still the same as in the day they were born. There is a mountain of division between them and heaven. They have yet to “pass from death to life” (1Jo 3:14). Oh, that they did but see and know their danger! It is one fearful mark of spiritual death that, like natural death, it is not felt!”

J.C. Ryle

“To often, while we guard against an error on the right hand, we forget one not less hurtful on the left;  like the man, who in guarding against the precipice on the one side, rushes into some fearful hazard in the other.”

Charles Bridges

“I have found, my brethren, by long experience that nothing touches the heart like the cross of Christ. When the heart is touched and wounded by the two-edged sword of the Law, nothing heals its wounds like the balm that flows from the pierced heart of Jesus.”

Charles Spurgeon

“This habit of living in the element of Scripture is invaluable.  To be filled from this divine treasury, to have large sections of the Word passing through the mind, enables us to grasp it more firmly and apply it to our lives.”

Charles Bridges

“The doctrine of justification by faith only is absolutely essential. There has never been a revival but that this has always come back into great prominence. This doctrine means the end of all thinking about ourselves and our goodness, and our good deeds, and our morality, and all our works.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Other knowledge, though you should attain the highest degree of it, would never bring you to heaven, being defective and lame both in the integrity of parts, the principal thing, Christ, being wanting - and in the purity of its nature.”

John Flavel

“In his exalted state Christ continues to be our Priest. He makes, indeed, no more offerings; but he gloriously intercedes for us.”

William Plumer

“The word is a mirror to show us our spots, and Christ’s blood is a fountain to wash them away; it turns leprosy into purity.”

Thomas Watson

“It is right and fitting, perhaps, it is necessary that a mediator should be the equal of both parties. Jesus Christ has this fitness for His work. He can lay His hand upon both God and sinners. He knows God’s will and God’s rights. He knows man’s sins and man’s wants. He will not betray either party.  It is no robbery for Him to claim equality with God (Phil. 2:6).”

William Plumer

“You may know a good deal about the Bible. You may know the outlines of the histories it contains, and the dates of the events described, just as a man knows the history of England. You may know the names of the men and women mentioned in it, just as a man knows Caesar, Alexander the Great, or Napoleon. You may know the several precepts of the Bible, and admire them, just as a man admires Plato, Aristotle, or Seneca. But if you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have read your Bible hitherto to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a key-stone, a compass without a needle, a clock without spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you. It will not deliver your soul from hell.”

J.C. Ryle

“He that had no cause to suffer for Himself suffered for me.  O Lord Jesus, thou suffers not thine own, but my wounds.”

Thomas Adams

“What joy it is, believer, to think that thou hast such a perfect atonement to rest upon! If there were one sin Christ did not suffer for on the cross or one evil thought of one of His people that He did not bear, we could not be saved. But He has “finished” the whole of His people’s transgression; He has made an end of all their sins. “

Charles Spurgeon

“O let no one be deceived with respect to him who was thus nailed to the cross! Those pierced hands bless more powerfully than while they moved freely and unfettered. They are the hands of a wonderful architect, who is building the frame of an eternal Church—yea, they are the hands of a hero, which take from the strong man all his spoil. And believe me, there is no help or salvation, save in these hands; and these bleeding feet tread more powerfully than when no fetters restrained their steps.”

F.W Krummacher