“How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!”

—D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones 

“Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God’s mercies.” 

—A.W. Pink

“No life can be dreary when work is delight.”

—Frances Ridley Havergal

“I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.” —Paul Washer

“As Christ was not made sin by any sin inherent in Him, so neither are we made righteous by any righteousness inherent in us, but by the righteousness of Christ imputed to us.” —Matthew Poole

Two Trees

At first, a man stretched out his hands

To grab some leaves;

He sewed himself an apron—paper-thin.

 

At last, a Man stretched out His hands

To give His life;

He sowed Himself—to cover others’ sin.

“God is too large to be housed under one roof.”

—Roger Williams

“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built

and looks out the windows which hope has opened.” 

—Charles Spurgeon

“God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.” —H.A. Ironside