It was well done of Paul to reprove Peter to his face, and it was well done of Peter, to praise Paul in his absence.
– Thomas Adams –
Reprove and Praise – Thomas Adams
How You Should Be – Charles Spurgeon
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixed upright.
– Charles Spurgeon –
We Must Be Clean People – AW Tozer
I do not preach any new truth. I do not have any new doctrine … We must have a revival that will mean purity of heart as a normal standard for everybody. We must be clean people, and not only clean outside.
– AW Tozer –
Every Doctrine Must Come From God – George Whitefield
It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.
– George Whitefield –
The Living Example of Theology – John Wesley
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians of England.
– John Wesley –
Methodists Cease to Exist? – John Wesley
I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.
– John Wesley –
Your Doctrine – Leonard Ravenhill
Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel – and just as empty!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Reading William Gurnall – JC Ryle
For my own part, I can only say that I read everything I can get hold of which professes to throw light on my Master’s business, and the work of Christ among men. But, the more I read, the less I admire modern theology. The more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the “broader and kinder systems”, as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy. I find more of definite soul-satisfying thought in one page of Gurnall than in five pages of such books as the leaders of the so-called “Broad Church School” put forth. In matters of theology, the old is better.
– JC Ryle –
talking about William Gurnall’s book, “The Christian In Complete Armour” (dated April 23, 1864)
Why the Church Stays Indoors – Samuel Chadwick
Why does the Church stay indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a philosophy, in which there is no thrill of faith, no terror of doom, and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out the fires of passion, and worldliness garlands the altar of sacrifice with the tawdry glitter of unreality.
– Samuel Chadwick –