Quotations

It is the duty of all those who "love the Lord Jesus in sincerity" to testify to his divine person and glory according to the ability God has given to each of us, and this I have chosen to do, not in a controversial way, but in order to strengthen the faith of true believers, to build them up in the knowledge of Christ and his glory and to help them experience that which they have, or may have, of the power and reality of these things."--John Owen

This is the true and perfect glorying in God, when a man is not lifted up on account of his own righteousness, but has known himself to be wanting in true righteousness and to be justified by faith alone in Christ.--Basil the Great, Church Father (330-379)

I have a great need for God; I have a great God for my need.--Charles Spurgeon

I am not what I ought to be; I am not what I wish to be; I am not what I hope to be; but by the grace of God, I am not what I was.--John Newton

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.--C.S. Lewis

Doubts are not incompatible with faith. Some people seem to think that once you become a Christian you should never be assailed by doubts. But that is not so. Peter still had faith [as he panicked in the storm in Matthew 14]. His faith was not gone, but it was weak, doubt mastered him and overwhelmed him and he was shaken. Doubts will attack us, but that does not mean that we are to allow them to master us.--Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones