Jonathan Franzone > Jonathan's Quotes

“Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.”
― Augustus Toplady

“The severest self-denials and the most lavish gifts are of no value in God's esteem unless they are prompted by love.”
― A.W. Pink

“Profanity is the use of strong words by weak people.”
― William A. Ward

“Are you too bad to receive grace? How could you be too bad to receive what is for the bad?”
― David Powlison

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.”
― Charles Seymour Robinson

“In this age, telling the truth is tough business and not for the fainthearted.”
― Albert Mohler

“Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.”
― Hudson Taylor

“If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant.”
― Ed Welch

“Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.”
― Ed Stetzer

“Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.”
― Robert Shaw

“A cross without offense in the world is a cross without power in the world.”
― Steven Lawson

“Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian.”
― Sinclair Ferguson

“Righteous wrath is no less noble than love, since both coexist in God.”
― John MacArthur

“When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.”
― Thomas Brooks

“Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you.”
― Sinclair Ferguson

“Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.”
― John Piper

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
― Amy Carmichael

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love

“We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.”
― Oswald J. Smith

“A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.”
― Stephen Charnock

“This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on earth.”
― Keith Green

“True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.”
― C.T. Studd

“Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardner.”
― George Herbert

“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.”
― Stephen Charnock

“God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.”
― Hudson Taylor

“You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.”
― Leon Morris

“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.”
― William Cameron Townsend

“The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time.”
― Carl F. H. Henry