"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head." - C.S. Lewis
"We have too often reduced God to a formula, belief to a system and worship to a happy-clappy, feel-good floor show. Our God is too small. But that is because he is our God and not the God of the Bible." - David Robertson, The Dawkins Letters
"It is by God’s grace alone (sola gratia) that he justifies the sinner. God has every right to condemn the sinner but instead shows him mercy and shows him his grace. Justification is through Christ alone (solus Christus), as it is the work of Christ—his life, death, and resurrection—that serves as the judicial basis for the believer’s verdict of righteousness. And a sinner is justified by faith alone (sola fide)." - J.V. Fesko
"If no one less than the Eternal God, the Creator and Preserver of all things, could take away the sin of the world, sin must be a far more abominable thing in the sight of God than most men suppose. The right measure of sin's sinfulness is the dignity of Him who came into the world to save sinners. If Christ is so great, then sin must indeed be sinful!" - J.C. Ryle
"To be entrusted with the treasure of God’s gospel is not a responsibility that can be switched “off” and “on” at will. In a profound way, this calling consumes those who receive it, and its faithful fulfilment demands not only readiness to suffer but also a humble dependence on God’s sovereign Spirit to convey his life-giving good news through our weak words." - Dennis Johnson
"We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained." - Martin Luther
"How ironic that sexuality and nudity, which are meant to be private, are now fare for public consumption while spiritual convictions, which are meant to strengthen public polity, are now for private expression only." - Ravi Zacharias
"Ignorance is brutal, arrogance is devilish. Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory." - Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God
"Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace." - Jerry Bridges
"The Christian religion flourishes not in the darkness, but in the light. Intellectual slothfulness is but a quack remedy for unbelief; the true remedy is consecration of intellectual powers to the service of the Lord Jesus Christ." - J. Gresham Machen "The Importance of Christian Scholarship in The Defense of The Faith"
"Teach us to study the work of Thy hands that we may subdue the earth to our uses, and strengthen our reason for Thy service; and so rescue Thy blessed Word, that we may believe on Him whom Thou hast sent to give us the knowledge of salvation and the remission of our sins." - James Clerk Maxwell
"Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion." - G.K. Chesterton
"According to Scripture, the Christian life is repentance from beginning to end! So long as the believer is simul justus et peccator (at the same time righteous and yet a sinner), it can be no other way." - Sinclair Ferguson
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