“We are not heard for our many words, but for the cry of our hearts” #JohnMacArthur

“If I ever find out there’s a God, I would give Him everything, but 80 percent of people in this country claim to be Christians, and yet they don’t give everything they are to God. They just live like this is the only life” Craig Keener, in ‘The Case For Miracles’ #LeeStrobel

“[As an atheist] I had been wanting empirical evidence, but instead God gave me something else: the evidence of His presence” — Craig Keener, in ‘The Case For Miracles’ #LeeStrobel

“Being raised from the dead is never boring. Therefore every Christian has a stunning testimony” #JohnPiper

"What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring” #CSLewis

“You will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John” #CSLewis

“If Jesus preached the same message many ministers preach today, he would have never been crucified” #LeonardRavenhill

“Discipleship is the difference between being a fan and being a Christian” #SamAllberry

“To love to preach is one thing, to love those to whom we preach quite another” #MartynLloydJones

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe” #StAugustine

The psalmists were people who knew far less about God than we do, yet loved Him a great deal more #AlecMotyer

“Just because we are tempted does not mean that we are our temptations” #JackieHillPerry

“A fool is not someone who is ignorant; a fool is someone who knows the truth and rejects it” #JohnMacArthur

“The gospel doesn’t require obedience, it produces it” #VoddieBaucham

“The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object” #CSLewis

“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God” #LeonardRavenhill

“The great paradox of the Christian faith is that God saves us from Himself and for Himself” #RCSproul

“Reading the Bible has zero effect on our lives apart from the Holy Spirit” #JohnPiper

We have been saved from the penalty of sin (justification); we are being saved from the power of sin (sanctification); we shall be saved from the presence of sin (glorification)

“Remember that the most repeated sentence in the entire Bible is “His steadfast love endures forever.” It’s worth our repeating it. Say it out loud, ‘The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end.’” #DavidPowlison

“Sometimes a heavy burden brings you closer to God” #PhilipNunn

“Fathers aren’t meant to be superheroes. We’re meant to be surrogates; that our kids may see their heavenly Father as the most Amazing, Incredible, and Super Being in the universe” #JoeCarter

Isaiah 64:4: “From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides You, Who acts for those who wait for Him”

After the service a man greeted him: “Professor Barth, thank you for your sermon. I'm an astronomer, you know, and as far as I am concerned, the whole of Christianity can be summed up by saying, 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” 1/2

“My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one” #JohnNewton

“Believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin (...) Be killing sin or it will be killing you” #JohnOwen

“The rulers sneered at Him, shouting: ‘He saved others, but He can’t save Himself!’ Their words, spoken as an insult, were the literal truth. He could not save Himself and others simultaneously” #JohnStott

#MartynLloydJones on Psalm 42:5 (“Why are you cast down, o my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him”): “[M]ost of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself”

“A thousand times in history a baby has become a king, but only once in history did a King become a baby” #MattSmethurst

“The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself ... address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself ... remind yourself of God, Who God is, and . . . what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do” #MartynLloydJones

When someone asks, “How can I know the will of God for my life?“ I love to say, “I know the will of God for your life.“ 1 Thessalonians 4:3: “This is the will of God, your sanctification” #JohnPiper

“Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin” #FrancisChan

Christ's birth: Brightness at midnight Christ's death: Darkness at noon #MattSmethurst

“I’m not coming as an authority but with an Authority [God’s Word: the Bible]. And if I can’t show you what’s here [in the Bible], there’s no reason why you should pay any attention to me” #JohnPiper

“To fail to pray is not to merely break some religious rule—it is a failure to treat God as God” #TimKeller

On Ecclesiastes 7:1: “Coffins lay things to the heart better than cribs. They’re better preachers” #DavidGibson

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?" #CSLewis

“Those only are happy, truly happy, that are holy, truly holy” #MatthewHenry

“We think being human means having all the answers and knowing why we hurt and why we lose. In fact, we were made to fear God, not to be God” #DavidGibson

“Holiness is the royal road to happiness. The death of sin is the life of joy” #CharlesSpurgeon

“God is glorified not only by His glory’s being seen but by its being rejoiced in” #JonathanEdwards

Deuteronomy 28:47: “God threatens terrible things if we will not be happy” #JeremyTaylor

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything” #CSLewis

“Psalms teach us how to worship; Proverbs, how to behave; Job, how to suffer; Song of Solomon, how to love; and Ecclesiastes, how to live” #JIPacker

“We don’t come to Jesus because He makes life better. We come to Jesus because He’s better than life” #MattChandler

“Marriage is such a powerful way to display the gospel and the glory of God. It is the first place people will look to see if we really believe what we say we believe” #FrancisChan

“This is God’s universe, and God does things His way. You may have a better way, but you don’t have a universe” #JVernonMcGee

“Satan does not run hell. God does. Just as heaven is an eternal monument to his mercy, hell is an eternal monument to his justice. Both glorify his perfect character” #MattSmethurst

“Prayer is arguably the most objective measurement of our dependence on God. The things you pray about are the things you trust God to handle. The things you neglect to pray about are the things you trust you can handle on your own” #HBCharlesJr

“Religious people find God useful. Christians find God beautiful” #TimKeller