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“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
― St. Augustine

“The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Redemptive History & Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos

“Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody.

Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Very strange clay this, passive in the potter’s hands, to which the potter can do nothing unless it lets him!”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Studies in Perfectionism

“Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“It's so hard to see when my eyes are on me.”
― Keith Green

“You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.”
― R. C. Sproul

“We should be ready at all times to depart hence, and to live in such a condition as we would be content to die in.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.”
― j.c. ryle, Fighting for Holiness

“Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“We may take comfort about our souls if we know anything of an inward fight and conflict. It is the invariable companion of genuine Christian holiness.”
― J.C. Ryle, Fighting for Holiness

“Everlasting liberty or everlasting captivity are the alternatives before you. Choose liberty and fight to the last.”
― J.C. Ryle, Fighting for Holiness

“None are so aware of corruption as those whose souls are most alive.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“No soldiers of Christ are ever lost, missing, or left dead on the battlefield.”
― J.C. Ryle, Fighting for Holiness

“If the sweetness of all flowers were in one, how sweet must that flower be? In Christ all perfections of mercy and love meet. How great then must that mercy be that lodges in so gracious a heart?”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“Stir up the grace that is in you, for in this way holy motions turn to resolutions, resolutions to practice, and practice to a prepared readiness to every good work.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“Satan will object, ‘You are a great sinner.’ We may answer, ‘Christ is a strong Savior.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“The road to glory is through the house of pain.”
― R.C. Sproul

“There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.”
― Richard Sibbes

“Every plant, every atom, as well as every star, at the first meeting whispers this in our ears, "I have a Creator, I am witness to a deity.”
― Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God

“Oh how many have been wheeled to hell in the chariots of earthly pleasures, while others have been whipped to heaven by the rod of affliction!”
― John Flavel, Keeping the Heart: How to Maintain Your Love for God

“Nothing can make itself or bring itself into being. Therefore there must be some being that has no cause, that depends upon no other, never was produced by any other, but was what he is from eternity, cannot be otherwise, and is what he is, not by will but by nature, necessarily existing and always existing without any capacity or possibility ever not to be.”
― Stephen Charnock

“Perhaps you deceive yourself by looking forward to what you would be, rather than contemplating what you are, compared with what you once were.”
― John Flavel, Keeping the Heart

“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”
― Abraham Kuyper

“Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God”
― R.C. Sproul