What are most youth groups like? You get a real personable young leader who’s usually not married and a lot of mousse in his hair. And then he gets a lot of young people around him, and what do they become? According to Proverbs they become companions of fools. When you put young people with young people in this atmosphere of adolescence you have no growth to adulthood, you have no maturity, no elders are involved, no parents are involved. It can’t work because it’s not Biblical.

– Paul Washer

The knowledge of God is the great hope of sinners. Oh, if you knew Him better, you would fly to Him! If you understood how gracious He is, you would seek Him. If you could have any idea of His holiness, you would loathe your self-righteousness. If you knew anything of His power, you would not venture to contend with Him. If you knew anything of His grace, you would not hesitate to yield yourself to Him.

– Charles Spurgeon

1834 – 1892

I pity the man who preaches only one side of the truth–always the gospel, and never the Law.

– D.L. Moody

1837 – 1899

I dwell on these things more because this is an age of reading. There seems no end to the producing of many books, though few of them are really profitable. There seems a rage for cheap printing and publishing. Newspapers of every sort abound, and the tone of some, which have the widest circulation, speaks badly for the taste of the age. Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master’s book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and Apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and sanctifying can find no place in your mind. Young men, give the Bible the honor due to it every day you live. Whatever you read, read that first. And beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read. . . . Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

-J.C. Ryle

1816 – 1900

   To have found God and still pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

– A.W. Tozer

1897 – 1963

   If the affluence of America impressed me, the affluence of Christians impressed me even more. The United States has about 5,000 Christian book and gift stores, carrying varieties of products beyond my ability to imagine–and many secular stores also carry religious books. All this while 6,800 of the world’s 13,500 languages are still without a single portion of the Bible published in their own language! In his book My Billion Bible Dream, Rochunga Pudaite says, “Eighty-five percent of all Bibles printed today are in English for the nine percent of the world who read English. Eighty percent of the world’s people have never owned a Bible while Americans have an average of four in every household.”

– K.P. Yohannan

   Who is more irrational? A man who believes in a God he doesn’t see, or a man who’s offended by a God he doesn’t believe in?

– Brad Stine 

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. “No man come to Me,” said our Lord, “except that Father which hath sent Me draw him,” and it is by this very prevenient drawing that God takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming.

– A.W. Tozer

1897 – 1963

  I picked up a popular Christian magazine containing many interesting articles, stories and reports from all over the world–most written by famous leaders in the West. I noticed that this magazine offered ads for 21 Christian colleges, seminaries and correspondence courses; five different English translations of the Bible; seven conferences and retreats; five new Christian films; 19 commentaries and devotional books; seven Christian health or diet programs; and five fund-raising services. But that was not all. There were ads for all kinds of products and services: counseling, chaplaincy services, writing courses, church steeples, choir robes, wall crosses, baptisteries, and water heaters, T-shirts, records, tapes, adoption agencies, tracts, poems, gifts, book clubs and pen pals. It was all rather impressive. Probably none of these things was wrong in itself, but it bothered me that one nation should have such spiritual luxury while 40,000 people were dying in my homeland every day without hearing the Gospel even once.

– K.P. Yohannan

   Be very sure that every doctrine which will not stand the test of Scripture is false. This will keep you from being tossed to and fro, and carried about by the dangerous opinions of these latter days. Be very sure that every practice in your life which is contrary to Scripture is sinful and must be given up. . . . And read it regularly. This is the only way to become “mighty in the Scriptures.” A quick glance at the Bible now and then does little good. At that rate you will never become familiar with its treasure or feel the sword of the Spirit fitted to your hand in the hour of conflict.

1816 – 1900

   Many North American Christians live isolated from reality–not only from the needs of the poor overseas, but even from the poor in their own cities. . . .  I found that believers are ready to get involved in almost any activity that looks spiritual but allows them to escape their responsibility to the Gospel.

– K.P. Yohannan

   Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such [a] way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God . . . .

– A.W. Tozer

1897 – 1963

They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law.

– Charles Spurgeon

1834 – 1892

No place, no employment is good for you, which injures your soul. No friend, no companion deserves your confidence, who makes light of your soul’s concerns. The man who hurts you, your property, your character only does you temporary harm. Your true enemy is the one who plots to damage your soul.

– J.C. Ryle

1816 – 1900

Religion, I discovered, is a multi-billion dollar business in the United States. Entering churches, I was astonished at the carpeting, furnishing, air-conditioning and ornamentation. Many churches have gymnasiums and fellowships that cater to a busy schedule of activities having little or nothing to do with Christ. The orchestras, choirs, “special” music–and sometimes even the preaching–seemed to me more like entertainment than worship.

– K.P. Yohannan

   He knows your trials and your temptations, your difficulties and your foes. In the days of His flesh He was like you–a young man at Nazareth. He knows by experience a young man’s mind. He can understand the feeling of your temptations–because He himself suffered when He was tempted. Surely you will be without excuse if you turn away from such a Savior and Friend as this.

– J.C. Ryle

1816 – 1900

   Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Costly grace is the Gospel.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1906 – 1945

   It is in Christ alone that all these things are to be found–grace, peace, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. It is just in proportion as we live upon Him, that we are strong Christians. It is only when self is nothing and Christ is all our confidence, it is only then that we shall do great exploits.

– J.C. Ryle

1816 – 1900

A cult is a group that splits off from a parent religion and denies one or more of the essential doctrines of that religion.

– Ron Rhodes