"However much we may delude ourselves, there is no such thing as a theoretical Christian. It is possible to hold the doctrine of the faith in the lecture room, to give an intellectual assent to these things, but that does not make us Christian." - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"It is just as impossible that any one for whom Christ rose from the dead should fail to receive the righteousness of God as it is that God should undo the resurrection of Christ itself. Consequently, knowing ourselves one with Christ, we find in the resurrection the strongest possible assurance of pardon and peace." - Geerhardus Vos
"Sovereign grace is dear to those who have groaned deeply because they see what grievous sinners they are." - Charles Spurgeon
"Our nature is so corrupt, the power of sin is so great, that unless God does a supernatural work in our souls we will never choose Christ. We do not believe in order to be born again; we are born again in order that we may believe." - R.C. Sproul
"God is seen on almost every page of Holy Writ as He reveals Himself in words and actions. This revelation of God is the basis of our faith in the existence of God, and makes this an entirely reasonable faith." - Louis Berkhof
"It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.” - Charles Spurgeon
"Thus it came about that in the hands of the great Protestant leaders of the sixteenth century, and of their successors, the Protestant systematisers of the seventeenth century, the threefold doctrine of imputation — of Adam’s sin to his posterity, of the sins of His people to the Redeemer, and of the righteousness of Christ to His people — at last came to its rights as the core of the three constitutive doctrines of Christianity — the sinfulness of the human race, the satisfaction of Jesus Christ, and justification by faith. The importance of the doctrine of imputation is that it is the hinge on which these three great doctrines turn, and the guardian of their purity." - B.B. Warfield
"That which we know to be grounded upon the Scriptures we must receive, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God. We must with reverence attend to it; we must in our hearts believe, and we must in our lives obey it." - William Gouge
"If the church as a whole is losing its ability to be “salt and light” in the culture, it is not because its members have no opinion of the films of Bernardo Bertolucci, no appreciation for the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and no regular slot on The Charlie Rose Show. More likely, it is because they do not have a solid grasp of the basic elements of the faith, as taught in Scripture and affirmed by the confessions and catechisms of the church." - Carl Trueman
"Paul, then, does not see evil in all its varied forms simply as so many ethical misdemeanours. He relates it all to God. It is a dishonouring of God, a failure to fear God, a hostility to God, and more. And God takes knowledge of it. People are responsible for their actions." - Leon Morris
"The spiritual security of believers, therefore, depends primarily not on their hold of God but on God's hold of them." - Anthony Hoekema
"Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity." - J. Gresham Machen
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