“There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in behavior may be. It is always on His ‘blood and righteousness’ alone that we can rest.” 

—B.B. Warfield

“God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.”

—John Newton

“All shall work together for good; 

everything is needful that He sends; 

nothing can be needful that He withholds.” 

—John Newton

“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.” —Charles Spurgeon

“Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.”

—Isaac Watts

“A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, 

but war within. 

He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” 

—J.C. Ryle

“Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, 

your own knowledge, or your own diligence. 

Glory in nothing but Christ.” 

—J.C. Ryle

“The Christian is called out from the world.

His life is not to be as the lives of those about him.”

—H.A. Ironside

“True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.”

—Charles Spurgeon

“The wise in heart shall be called prudent:

and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning”

(Proverbs 16:21).