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 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 –
You don’t need to [merely] know the word of God; you need to know the God of the word.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
– Desiderius Erasmus –
(1466-1536 AD)
We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.
– William Tyndale –
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to [godliness].
– Clement of Alexandria –
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
– Richard Sibbes –
We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
– AW Tozer –