"The Spirit never loosens where the Word binds;
the Spirit never justifies where the Word condemns;
the Spirit never approves where the Word disapproves;
the Spirit never blesses where the Word curses."
--Thomas Brooks
"But what is the truth? There is the point. Is the truth that which I imagine to be revealed to me by some private communication? Am I to fancy that I enjoy some special revelation, and am I to order my life by voices, dreams, and impressions? Brethren, fall not into this common delusion. God's word to us is in Holy Scripture. All the truth that sanctifies men is in God's Word. If your imaginary revelation is not according to this Word, it has no weight with us; and if it is according to this Word, it is no new thing."
--Charles Spurgeon, Sermon 1890, March 7, 1886
"The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart." -- A.W. Tozer
"The modern church rejects the outcasts of society where as these very outcasts were the very ones who were drawn to Jesus." -- Philip Yancey
"Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all." -- St. Augustine of Hippo
"I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am."