Our faith itself, though it be the bond of our union with Christ through which we receive all His blessings, is not our saviour. We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all. - [B.B. Warfield]

Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure. [Elisabeth Elliot]

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel. [John Piper]

God wants us to walk in obedience - not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self. This may seem to be merely splitting hairs over semantics, but there is a subtle, self-centered attitude at the root of many of our difficulties with sin. Until we face this attitude and deal with it, we will not consistently walk in holiness. [Jerry Bridges]

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything. [G.K. Chesterton]

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering. [Tim Keller]

God intends the Christian life to be a life of joy - not drudgery. The idea that holiness is associated with a dour disposition is a caricature of the worst sort. In fact, just the opposite is true. Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy. [Jerry Bridges]

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. [G.K. Chesterton]

Anything less than absolute dedication must be considered insubordination to our Master, and mockery of his cause. [George Verwer]

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety. [Dietrich Bonhoeffer]

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake" [Martin Luther]

The good that God works for in our lives is conformity to the likeness of His Son. So, His good is not necessarily our present comfort or happiness but rather conformity to Christ in ever-increasing measure for eternity. [Jerry Bridges]

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world [C.S. Lewis]

All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy [C.S. Lewis]

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]