Bounds Quotes

Would you be freed from the bondage to corruption? Would you grow in grace in general and grow in grace in particular? If you would, your way is plain.
Ask of God more faith. Beg of him morning, and noon and night, while you walk by the way, while you sit in the house, when you lie down and when you rise up; beg of him simply to impress divine things more deeply on your heart, to give you more and more of the substance of things hoped for and of the evidence of things not seen.The Necessity of Prayer - Chap 2

Bible Use

"The Bible has been 'recommended' for many other purposes from the one for which it was written. The purpose of the Bible is to bring men to Christ, to make them holy and prepare them for heaven. Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin!" -- A.W. Tozer

"Before dawn, over midmorning coffee, or at the dinner table with family—whenever you read the Bible, something miraculous is happening.

The presence of desire to hear God's word and think his thoughts testifies to the blood-bought grace by which he called you out of darkness. The mental energy and hungry soul that you bring to an open Bible is not separated from God's saving activity. In fact, the act of your reading is part of that saving activity as God continues his perfecting work (Philippians 1:6).

And it is not merely a piece of God's action in your personal life. It is another scene in God's whole redemptive and revelatory activity towards mankind. Your simple reading the Bible—your interpreting—is a step forward both in the degree of your transformation and in God's manifold wisdom being made known to the world." - Jonathan Parnell

Why God Makes Understanding Difficult

I am convinced that there are many things in religion and the Scriptures that are made difficult on purpose to try men, and to exercise their faith and scrutiny, and to hinder the proud and self-sufficient. - Jonathon Edwards

Worship

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. It is inconceivable that a sovereign and holy God should be so hard up for workers that He would press into service anyone who had been empowered regardless of his moral qualifications. -- A.W. Tozer

Cross quotes

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them. -- E. M Bounds

Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is an utterly new creation into which we are brought by our death in Jesus' death and our resurrection in his. It comes not out of our own best efforts, however well-inspired or successfully pursued, but out of the shipwreck of all human efforts whatsoever. -- Robert Farrer Capon

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God. -- Oswald Chambers

Learn to know Christ and him crucified. Learn to sing to him, and say, "Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, I am your sin. You have taken upon yourself what is mine and given me what is yours. You have become what you were not so that I might become what I was not." -- Martin Luther

It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ's blood and merit. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Death

Death is never sudden to a saint; no guest comes unawares to him who keeps a constant table. -- George Swinnock

Affliction

Afflictions are a looking glass that show the ugly face of sin. They are God's furnace to cleanse and preserve His people. Saints thrive most internally when they are most afflicted. Afflictions inflame love that is cold, quicken decaying faith and put life into withering hope. We must measure afflictions by their outcome, not by how they hurt.  -- Thomas Brooks

Prayer II

The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should never know how poor we are, but a true prayer is an inventory of wants, a catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty. While it is an application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness. -- C.H. Spurgeon  http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/morneve.d1011am.html

Prayer is thus connected with the blessing to show us the value of it. If we had the blessings without asking for them, we should think them common things; but prayer makes our mercies more precious than diamonds. The things we ask for are precious, but we do not realize their preciousness until we have sought for them earnestly.

Let not your prayers be all concerning your own sins, your own wants, your own imperfections, your own trials, but let them climb the starry ladder, and get up to Christ himself, and then, as you draw nigh to the blood-sprinkled mercy-seat, offer this prayer continually, "Lord, extend the kingdom of thy dear Son." Such a petition, fervently presented, will elevate the spirit of all your devotions. Mind that you prove the sincerity of your prayer by labouring to promote the Lord's glory.

Go To The Cross

Do you want to see the greatest evidence of the love of God? Go to the cross. Do you want to see the greatest evidence of the justice of God? Go to the cross. It is where wrath and mercy meet. Holiness and peace kiss each other. The climax of redemptive history is in the cross.  --  D.A. Carson

God's course

God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.  --  John Newton

Justification

This doctrine [justification] is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God; and without it the church of God cannot exist one hour.  --  Martin Luther

Wherever the knowledge of it [justification] is taken away, the glory of Christ is extinguished, religion abolished, the Church detroyed, and the hope of salvation utterly overthrown.  --  John Calvin

There is something inexpressibly pleasing to a justified mind to know that God has all the honor in our salvation, and we have none; to know that God's honor is not violated, but on the contrary, shines more illustrious; to know that God's law is not injured, but magnified and made honorable, to know that we are safe, and God has all the glory.  --  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Living for Christ

Some Christians are for living on Christ, but are not so anxious to live for Christ. Earth should be a preparation for heaven. -- C.H. Spurgeon

Comprehending God

A comprehended god is no god. -- Chrysostom

Joy

The greatest ground of joy imaginable is to have our names written in heaven. -- Matthew Mead

Christ Centered Quotes - Day 1

It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.

Warfield, B. B. 

New blog?

This new blog is simply going to be my storehouse of quotes from Christian men and women through the ages that have inspired or provoked me.  I may not agree with every nuance of theology of the people I quote.  My goal is to share the specific, God-given, Christ-exalting insights they have provided in the quoted material.  Enjoy, to the glory of God!