Truth

The Best Safeguard

Quote from Mr. Luther

"Man is like a pillar of salt, like Lot's wife, yea like a log, or a stone, like a lifeless statue which uses neither eyes nor mouth, neither sense nor heart, until he is enlightened, converted and regenerated by the Holy Spirit." 

~ Martin Luther

"I never could..

.....believe in the Jesus Christ of some people, for the Christ in whom they believe is simply full of affectionateness and gentleness, whereas I believe there never was a more splendid specimen of manhood, even its sternness, than the Savior; and the very lips which declared that He would not break a bruised reed uttered the most terrible anathemas upon the Pharisees." 

–Charles Spurgeon

Implicit Confidence

“But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises.” 

- Arthur W. Pink, Elijah

Too small

“A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.” - Corrie ten Boom

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts." 

- Isaiah 55:8-9 

Straightforward

"Let your Christianity be so unmistakable and your walk so straightforward, 

that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are and whom you serve."  

~  J.C.Ryle

Absolutely!

“No doctrine in the whole Word of God has more excited the hatred of mankind than the truth of the absolute sovereignty of God. The fact that “the Lord reigneth” is indisputable, and it is this fact that arouses the utmost opposition in the unrenewed human heart.”

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)

The Older The More Calvinistic

I always find that the older saints become more Calvinistic as they ripen in age; that is to say, they get to believe more and more that salvation is all of grace; and whereas, at first, they might have had some rather loose ideas concerning free-will, and the power of the creature, the lapse of years and fuller experience gradually blow all that kind of chaff away.

- C.H. Spurgeon

Evangelism

"So far from making evangelism pointless, the sovereignty of God in grace is the one thing that prevents evangelism from being pointless. For it creates the possibility – indeed, the certainty – that evangelism will be fruitful. Apart from it, there is not even a possibility of evangelism being fruitful. Were it not for the sovereign grace of God, evangelism would be the most futile and useless enterprise that the world has ever seen, and there would be no more complete waste of time under the sun than to preach the Christian gospel."

~ J.I. Packer 


"I might preach to you forever. I might borrow the eloquence of Demosthenes or of Cicero, but you will not come unto Christ. I might beg of you on my knees, with tears in my eyes, and show you the horrors of hell and the joys of heaven, the sufficiency of Christ, and your own lost condition, but you would none of you come unto Christ of yourselves unless the Spirit that rested on Christ should draw you. It is true of all men in their natural condition that they will not come unto Christ."
~ C.H. Spurgeon

Beware...

"Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own." 

~ J.C. Ryle