“Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.”
— J. C. Ryle
“The years of our life are fast passing away. Who knows but this year may be the last in his life? Who can tell but that he may be called this very year to meet his God? As ever you would be found ready — be a real and true Christian.”
– J. C. Ryle
“Through darkness one may come to the light.”
– Gelmir
(from book “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth” by J. R. R. Tolkien.)
“To be in this world is to be in the realm of fallen and accursed peoples; this is unavoidable in history because it is the battleground between good and evil. There are no sidelines in this battle, and the casualties are grim, but the victory of the Kingdom of God is inevitable and inescapable.”
– R. J. Rushdoony
“There is a wide-spread ‘gullibility’ among professing Christians: every heretic who tells his story plausibly is sure to be believed, and everybody who doubts him is called a persecutor and a narrow-minded man.” – J. C. Ryle
“If you want health for your souls, and if you want to be the instruments of bringing health to others, do not turn your gaze forever within, as though you could find Christ there. Nay, turn your gaze away from your own miserable experiences, away from your own sin, to the Lord Jesus Christ as He is offered to us in the gospel. “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” Only when we turn away from ourselves to that uplifted Savior shall we have healing for our deadly hurt.”
—J. Gresham Machen
“Certainly a Christianity that avoids argument is not the Christianity of the New Testament. The New Testament is full of argument in defense of the faith. The Epistles of Paul are full of argument– no one can doubt that. But even the words of Jesus are full of argument in defense of the truth of what Jesus was saying. “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” Is not that a well-known form of reasoning, which the logicians would put in its proper category? Many of the parables of Jesus are argumentative in character. Even our Lord, who spoke in the plenitude of divine authority, did condescend to reason with men. Everywhere the New Testament meets objections fairly, and presents the gospel as a thoroughly reasonable thing.”
– J. Gresham Machen
“Let us never be ashamed, in a day of abounding heresy, to contend earnestly for the Godhead and personality of the Holy Spirit, and the reality of His work on souls. doctrine of the Trinity, and the proper Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, as great foundation verities of the gospel, so let us grasp tightly the truth about God the Holy Spirit Let us ever give Him in our religion the place and dignity which Scripture assigns to Him.”
– J. C. Ryle
“Faith knows God as sovereign over all the nations. Faith has insight into the reign of God, which is, in first instance, the reign of righteousness. The fundamental issue in all of history is justice– not might, but justice. Faith is supremely confident that God in righteousness condemns the ungodly world, no matter how powerful, and maintains the cause of His church, no matter how powerless. Faith goes to work depending upon God as Judge.”
– David J. Engelsma
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