Quote Collection
Conscience captive to Scripture – Martin Luther
I consider myself convicted by the testimony of Holy Scripture, which is my basis; my conscience is captive to the Word of God. Thus I cannot and will not recant, because acting against one’s conscience is neither safe nor sound. God help me. Amen.
– Martin Luther –
Consider what you lose in sin – Richard Sibbes
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
– Richard Sibbes –
1577-1635
The Christmas Paradox – CS Lewis
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
– CS Lewis –
Christmas is an exchange of gifts – Vance Havner
Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man—His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God—when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
– Vance Havner –
Why Jesus Came – Oswald Chambers
In our mental outlook we have to reconcile ourselves to the fact that sin is the only explanation as to why Jesus Christ came, the only explanation of the grief and the sorrow that there is in life.
– Oswald Chambers –
Lord delivers from all – Henry Smith
The lawyer can deliver his client but from strife, the physician can deliver his patient but from sickness, the master can deliver his servant but from bondage, but the Lord delivers us from all.
– Henry Smith –
1560-1591
Devotion to Christ – Oswald Chambers
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
Affliction brings sweet solace – Ichabod Spencer
Some of our sweetest solaces never could have been known but for the afflictions which bring them. What tender friendships gather around us when we are sick! What hearts beat for us and sympathize with us, and would, if they could, take themselves the pain that racks us! We should never know what tenderness and pity and kindness there is in the world, if our trials did not bring them out. Many of our calamities attach us more to our fellow-men, and make us think better of the world than we did before.
– Ichabod Spencer –
Prepare for your last day – Matthew Henry
It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.
– Matthew Henry –