Martin Luther Quote

"A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing." (Martin Luther)

A Quote by C.S. Lewis

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, He speaks in our conscience, but He shouts in our pains." (C.S. Lewis)

Tolerance Is a Virtue...

“Tolerance is a virtue for those who have no convictions.” (G.K. Chesterton)

Wrong Concept About the Real Battle

"If the devil can give us a wrong concept about the real battle, then he has won it. Oh, the confusion in Christianity today! We confuse nationalistic issues with the kingdom of God. We confuse race issues with the things of the Church. This is the strategy of the devil." (Brother Andrew)

Resigned to Soul Sickness

"Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to." -Mark Buchanan

Don't be complacent when it comes down to the health of your soul! Get right with God so that your soul can be healthy.

Cheap Grace: Quotes from The Cost of Discipleship

"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church."

"We are fighting today for costly grace."

"Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks' wares."

"Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. Grace alone does everything, they say, and so everything can remain as it was before."

"Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession."

"Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has."

"Costly grace is the gospel..."

"It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."

Quotes by Lewis and Piper

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." -C.S. Lewis

"The critical question for our generation-and for every generation-is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ was not there?" -John Piper

The Quotable Spurgeon

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if the will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unsprayed for.”

“Gratitude is the only fountain of acceptable service; without it, the streams are far to defiled to flow in the paradise of God.”

“If God has called you to be a missionary, your Father would be grieved for you to shrivel down into a king.”

“The gate of Heaven, though it is so wide that the greatest sinner may enter, is nevertheless so low that pride can never pass through it.”

“You and I must continue to drive at men’s hearts till they are broken. Then we must keep on preaching Christ crucified until their hearts are bound up.”

“I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man’s heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.”

“If you wish to know God, you must know His Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by His Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.”

“Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.”

“Some have used the terrors of the Lord to terrify, but Paul used them to persuade.”

“Men have been helped to live by remembering that they must die.”

“I am told that Christians do not love each other. I am very sorry if that be true, but I rather doubt it, for I suspect that those who do not love each other are not Christians.”

“Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself!”

“Preach with this object, that men may quit their sins and fly to Christ for pardon, that by His blessed Spirit they may be renovated and become as much in love with everything that is holy as they are now in love with everything that is sinful.”

On Christian Missions

“No Christian is in a right condition, if he is not seeking in some way to bring souls to Christ.” (C.H. Mackintosh)

"Go, send, or disobey." (John Piper, speaking on missions)

"Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." (John Piper)

"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." (Oswald J. Smith)

“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed." (Hudson Taylor)

"I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!" (Isobel Kuhn)

"The Primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ." (Vance Havner)