“No one attains true spiritual leadership who thinks his power is his own or that past victories are due to his own genius…the backbone of any work done for God is prayer.”
- R. Kent Hughes
“None but He who made the world can make a Minister of the Gospel.”
- John Newton
“Although my memory is fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner, and Christ is a great saviour.”
- John Newton
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell”
- C.S. Lewis
“People say the cross is the sign of how much man is worth. That’s not true. The Cross is the sign of how depraved we really are, that it took the death of God’s own Son, the only thing that could save a people like us.”
- Paul Washer
“Entrance into the kingdom of God cannot be gained …by birth, nor by purchase, nor by the favor of man, nor by meritorious behavior do we become citizens of the spiritual kingdom and heirs of eternal life. It is rather by the influence of the Spirit of God upon and within us that we become true subjects of the great King, and have our names entered on that blessed roll which is the Book of Life.”
- W. Clarkson
“God is the God of Perfect Justice, and therein lies our hope.”
- Steve Garrick
“This is the challenge of Christianity: to believe the unbelievable.”
-Robb Ward
“The Throne of God is not painted red, white, and blue.”
-Bob Selph
“Either become more like Christ or get out of the Gospel ministry because, if you don’t do the former, you will do great damage to the latter.”
- Sinclair Ferguson
“If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.”
- Charles Spurgeon
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
- Mr. Darcy, in Pride and Prejudice
“Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
- Augustine
“I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.”
- Martin Luther
“It don’t do to fight with God, ’cause He always wins. He’ll bloody your nose and then He gives you a ride home on His bicycle.”
-Rich Mullins
“People suck, and God saves us from ourselves.”
-Mark Driscoll
“How much of a pastor’s desire to be perceived as cool or connected to the culture is motivated by vanity or pride? Knowing the depth of our depravity and self-deception and pride, we must examine ourselves. In fact, I fear (and here I am speaking from what I see in my own heart) that oftentimes we are at least partially motivated to reach people by pride. How much of our desire to be cool is a desire to reach people, not only for the gospel, but also for our own glory? Here’s a diagnostic question for everyone who is a pastor: if the Lord called you to shepherd sixty uncool saints until they were safely home, with no spectacular revival or ministry explosion, would you consider that beneath you? Would it seem unworthy of your gifts and a waste of your life? If so, you are being motivated by pride.”
-Mike McKinley
“We should welcome any opportunity for media to help spread the good news about Jesus, but I don’t think we should put too much stock in that vehicle. The gospel is going to advance as it always has—steadily as it is clearly proclaimed by believers in their words and modeled by their lives and actions. The gospel advances as local congregations receive and live God’s word for their neighbors to see.”
- Josh Harris
“The difference that people are longing for, in other words, is a difference in being, not doing. So while many church “strategists” are locating reformation and revival in structural renovation, we must remember that the deepest needs of the Church today are spiritual, not structural. And yet, we are told that the Church’s cultural relevance depends ultimately on its ability to keep up with the changing structures, on its ability to do church differently.
I have good news for all of us who are becoming weary of this type of pressure: We don’t have to keep up the way we think we do; the world doesn’t want us to! So how do we compete? We don’t! We must come to see that God has established His Church as an “alternative society”, not to compete with this world, but rather to offer a home to those who realize the homelessness of life in this world without Him. It is the calling and the privilege of the Church to be “against the world for the world”. We should be encouraged and challenged by the historical reminder that the Church has always served the world best when it has been most counter cultural, most distinctively different from the world.”
- Tullian Tchividjian
“Whitfield and Wesley might preach the Gospel better than I can, but they cannot preach a better Gospel.”
-C.H. Spurgeon
“God is a Great God who has Great Mercy on Great Sinners for His Great Glory.”
- Larry Vincent
“It is the profoundest act of humility in a Christian man to acknowledge the grace of God in his soul.”
-Octavius Winslow
“So strong, though secret, is the connection between the greatest and the least important events. What a comfortable thought is this to the believer: to know that amid the various interfering plans of men, the Lord has one constant goal, which He cannot, will not miss, namely, His own glory in the complete salvation of His people. He is wise, strong, and faithful to make even those things that seem contrary to this plan nevertheless serve to promote it.”
- John Newton
“The Bible both makes clear and illustrates the point: when the truth of God is not our starting-point, assuredly folly, epistemological and moral insanity, and disaster will be our ending-point.”
- Dan Phillips
