If you wish to know God, you must know His Word.

—C.H. Spurgeon

Colossians 1:9-14
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly & frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

—Jonathan Edwards

It is no small comfort to the saints that this world is the worst place that they shall ever be in. If the traveler has spent all his money, yet it does not much trouble him if he knows himself to be within a few miles of his own home.

—John Flavel

Go to Church!

Hebrews 10:23-25
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

As kids we played games drawn from scenarios of war. When a friend approached we pretended that we were guards. The dialogue was simple: “Halt! Who goes there? Friend or foe?” Our categories left no room for indifferent neutrality. They were restricted to two options, friend or enemy. Those are the only options we have in our relationship with God—nobody is neutral. We are either God’s friends or God’s enemies.

Jonathan Edwards once preached a sermon noscriptd, “Man, Naturally God’s Enemies.” In this sermon Edwards declared: “Men, in general, will own that they are sinners. There are few, if any, whose consciences are so blinded as not to be sensible they have been guilty of sin … And yet few of them are sensible that they are God’s enemies. They do not see how they can be truly so called; for they are not sensible that they wish God any hurt, or endeavor to do Him any.”

Yet despite human protestations to the contrary, Scripture clearly describes natural fallen men as enemies of God. Paul, in speaking of our salvation, wrote, “when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son” (Romans 5:10). Again, “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies [of God] in your mind by wicked works (Colossians 1:21). Also, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
(Romans 8:7)

It is not pleasure that you should fear, but uncontrolled desire.

—Augustine

Get this deep into your soul, 'Christ died for me,'
and you will soon be ready to die for him.

—C.H. Spurgeon

Oh, men and women, pray through, pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.

—R.A. Torrey

Scripture is the ongoing rapport between heaven and earth, between Christ and his church, between God and his children.

—Herman Bavinck

Humility is the beginning of worship.

—John Calvin

There is a false tenderness in the world — a tenderness cut off from Christ — that poses as compassion and leads to concentration camps.

—John Piper

Prayer turns theology into experience.

—Tim Keller

Most men forget God all day, and ask Him to remember them at night.

—C.H. Spurgeon

Everybody is concerned about the state of the country, but have you heard anybody talking about the state of the soul and eternal destiny?

—Martin Lloyd Jones

Think that in every line you read in noscripture, that God is speaking to you.

—Thomas Watson

I find he is a refuge in every storm, and that he makes poor sinners more than conquerors through his love.

—George Whitefield

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle —and not lose it.

—G.K. Chesterton

The battle for our Sundays is usually won or lost on the foregoing Saturday night.

—J.I. Packer

If you always enjoy sermons, the minister is not a good steward.
He is not acting wisely who deals out nothing but sweets.

—Charles Spurgeon

John 15:1-10

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.