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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
— Jim Elliot",
"Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
— Jim Elliot",
"As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
— David Brainerd",
"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
— Jerry Bridges, Transforming Grace",
"If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong but too weak. We are halfhearted creatures fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mudpies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
— C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory",
"For he loves Thee too little who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
— St. Augustine, Confessions",
"You can magnify with a microscope or with a telescope. A microscope magnifies by making tiny things look bigger than they are. A telescope magnifies by making gigantic things (like stars), which look tiny, appear more as they really are. God created the universe to magnify His glory the way a telescope magnifies stars.
— John Piper, The Dangerous Duty of Delight",
"You must, in your meditations and holy exercises, be much engaged in conversing with heavenly[-minded] persons, and objects, and enjoyments. You cannot constantly be seeking heaven, without having your thoughts much there. Turn, then, the stream of your thoughts and affections toward that world of love, and towards the God of love that dwells there, and toward the saints and angels that are at Christ’s right hand.
— Jonathan Edwards, Heaven, A World of Love",
"If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior.
— D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation",
"Behold, what manner of love is this, that Christ should be arraigned and we adorned, that the curse should be laid on His head and the crown set on ours.
— Thomas Watson",
"The glory of heaven which the gospel prepares us for, which faith leads and conducts us unto, which the souls of believers long after, as that which will give full rest, satisfaction, and complacency, is the full, open, perfect manifestation of the glory of the wisdom, goodness, and love of God in Christ...
— John Owen, The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded",
"To have the eternal glory of God in Christ, with all the fruits of his wisdom and love, whilst we are ourselves under the full participation of the effects of them, immediately, directly revealed, proposed, made known unto us, in a divine and glorious light, our souls being furnished with a capacity to behold and perfectly comprehend them, —this is the heaven which, according unto God’s promise, we look for.
— John Owen, The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded",
"So many Christians today identify themselves with some “single issue” (a concept drawn from politics) other than the cross, other than the gospel. It is not that they deny the gospel. If pressed, they will emphatically endorse it. But their point of self-identification, the focus of their minds and hearts, what occupies their interest and energy is something else... those who are so engaged must do so as an extension of the gospel, as an extension of the message of the cross.
— D.A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry, p. 63",
"God’s wounds cure, sin’s kisses kill.
— William Gurnall",
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
— C.S. Lewis",
"Let the saints know that unless the devil can pluck Christ out of heaven, he cannot pull a true believer out of Christ.
— John Bunyan",
"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer",
"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
— Samuel Rutherford",
"No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the cause of Christ in the world if they do not feel the magnificence of Christ himself. There will be no big world vision without a big God. There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.
— John Piper, “A Pastor's Role in World Missions”",
"The [Westminster] catechism says that man's chief end is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
— C.S. Lewis",
"What is the first thing we need, in order to be Christians? A new heart. — What is the sacrifice God asks us to bring to Him? A broken and a contrite heart. — What is the true circumcision? The circumcision of the heart. — What is genuine obedience? To obey from the heart. — What is saving faith? To believe with the heart. — Where ought Christ to dwell? To dwell in our hearts by faith. — What is the chief request that Wisdom makes to everyone? \"My son, give me thine heart.\"
— J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Matthew",
"The mother is designed by God to be a source of great blessing to her husband and children, the “very soul of the house.” And mothers underestimate the power in their hands to bring their families great good. ... God uses all these things we do, when we render them unto Him by faith, to strengthen, nourish, and grow our children up into men and women with fat souls who will then be able to nourish their own children and grandchildren.
— Nancy Wilson, “Your Baby Has a Soul”",
"Christian humility is to simply accept whatever God has revealed in His Word. Humility is following God's Word wherever it goes, as far as it goes, neither going beyond it nor stopping short of it. ... The humility we want in our churches is to read the Bible and believe it—everything God has said, dogmatically, and humbly! It is not humble to be hesitant where God has been clear and plain.
— Mark Dever, “Together for the Gospel” blog",
"[T]here can be no danger in thorough healing. It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell. Therefore, let us not take off ourselves too soon, nor pull off the plaster before the cure be wrought, but keep ourselves under this work till sin be the sourest, and Christ the sweetest, of all things.
— Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed",
"If you will see sin's sinfulness to loathe it, and mourn, do not stand looking upon sin, but look upon Christ first, as suffering and satisfying for it. If you would see your graces, your sanctification, do not stand gazing upon them; but look at Christ's righteousness in the first place; see the Son and you see all. Look at your graces in the second place.