Great Quotes 26

”We are immortal until our work is done.“
George Whitfield

“No proposed course of conduct can be so clear to a Christian as to excuse him from seeking direction from above … Not that you have to ask the Lord if you should get a haircut at 4 o’clock… scriptures do not require wilting in the everlasting arms, only leaning on them…“
Dale Ralph Davis

“Divine sovereignty does not negate human activity, but stimulates it… we often look at the teaching of God’s sovereignty too simplistically, some will allege that if God ordains something as certain it renders human effort irrelevant…“let go and let God”… but Joshua knew better, his view was not to let go but to grab hold, divine sovereignty creates confidence which calls forth our effort, even to the point of reckless abandon…God’s sovereignty is not a doctrine that shackles us but a reality that liberates us.“
Dale Ralph Davis
(Commentary on Joshua)

“Idolatry is worshipping what should be used and using what should be worshiped” - Augustine

“The trouble is that we cannot usually see these idols unless the Holy Spirit unleashes some of his scathing sarcasm and exposes the helpless things. It’s a saving work when the Holy Spirit starts making fun of our idols.”
Dale Ralph Davis

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.
John Bunyan

“I think we have a problem maybe… I think we get things contorted and twisted because we think we have to pray in faith and we think that if we fear we must have no faith and therefore we don’t bring our fears before God… rather you must have faith to faithfully tell him your fears.”
Dale Ralph Davis

“I wonder how many of us are singing the tune, but not the words?…”
Martin Lloyd Jones

“To be the man after God’s own heart is not to be sinlessly perfect but to be, among other things, utterly submissive to the accusing word of God.”
Dale Ralph Davis

“Sometimes the clearest evidence that God has not deserted you is not that you are successfully past your trial but that you are still on your feet in the middle of it.”
Dale Ralph Davis

“If what I study won't preach, there is something wrong with the way I study what I study.”
Dale Ralph Davis

“So long as our novelty license plates declare that "God is my co-pilot' we can be sure that we have not yet seen the King, Yahweh of hosts.”
Dale Ralph Davis

“Today’s Jesus is a Jesus that comes to us wreaking of handcream“
Dale Ralph Davis

“It’s not the things you don’t know that hurt you... it’s the things you know for sure that just ain’t so.”Mark Twain

All you need to be saved is need and nothing and no one has it.
Unknown

Fighting sin with sin doesn’t conquer sin; it multiplies it.
Gary Thomas

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply”
AW Tozer

“Faith in God begins where faith in oneself ends”.
David Zahl

If your sermon could be preached in a Jewish synagogue, then it’s not a good sermon.
American Gospel.

“I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow;
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.”
Robert Browning Hamilton

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.
Robert Jastrow

There is something about humility that appeals to my ego…
Augustine

We have a strange notion that the mere passing of time cancels sin…
CS Lewis

“If you’re sure that there is a God… And you’re scared of God… All that does is qualify you to be a demon.”
RC Sproul

“The best compliment I’ve ever received about my ministry and preaching was a woman who renounced me by saying ‘This man preaches to us as if we were sinners’…quite so“.
MLJ

“We are controlling our religion, my friends, instead of being controlled by it.”
Dead Orthodoxy sermon MLJ

“There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves… Nor so careful to make a righteous judgement of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves…“
Thomas Brooks

“What the heart loves the will chooses, and the mind justifies.”
Thomas Cranmer

“And the fact that you are absolutely certain about what that text of scripture means is not itself a coherent argument for the correctness of your understanding…”
Sinclair Ferguson

“The old testament may be likened to a chamber, richly furnished, yet dimly lit…”
BB Warfield

“Is there any little hell to torment little sinners in?”
John Flavel

‘Your tongue carries the breath of your soul into the world in which you live…like a smoker’s breath, it pollutes the air oblivious to the smoker himself…’ (Paraphrase)
Sinclair Ferguson

“It is very hard to be a simultaneously humble and angry… Jesus did it, but if we’re honest, we very rarely, if ever, do“
Christopher Ash

“Books don’t change people but paragraphs do.”
John Piper

All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.
John Flavel