The one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Knowledge – Understanding
I Have Best Learned on My Knees – John Bunyan
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
– John Bunyan –
Things Aren’t Right Because It Is Old – Charles Spurgeon
We cannot be certain that a thing is right because it is old, for Satan is old, and sin is old, and death is old, and hell is old; yet none of these things are right and desirable on that account.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Believing is Seeing – Charles Spurgeon
While carnal men say seeing is believing, we assure them that to us believing is seeing.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Seek God and Be Found of Him – Art Katz
Lock yourself in a room; throw the key away; do something! Seek God and be found of Him. That is His promise: “If you will seek for Me with all your heart and all your soul, you shall be found of Me” (Deuteronomy 4:29). When you do obtain that knowledge, maintain it, or else you will lose it.
– Art Katz –
Our Guilty Silence – John Stott
Our Guilty Silence suggests that one of the main reasons for our silence is because we lack either a thorough knowledge of the Gospel or a conviction about its truth or both. There can be no evangelism without an evangelist, no mission without a message.
– John Stott –
from Our Guilty Silence
The Gospel Is The Most Important Message – Jerry Bridges
The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history. Yet we allow thousands of professing Christians to live their entire lives without clearly understanding it and experiencing the joy of living in it.
– Jerry Bridges –
Know the God of The Word – Leonard Ravenhill
You don’t need to [merely] know the word of God; you need to know the God of the word.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Don’t Lack Learning – Erasmus
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
– Desiderius Erasmus –
(1466-1536 AD)