"The unthankful soul may thank itself it thrives no better"

William Gurnall, The Christian in Full Armour

"True discipleship consists, not in a blind submission to authority, but in the discernment and love of the truth—not in subjecting the conscience to a revelation which it does not understand, but in educating and feeding the conscience by the truth apprehended in the revelation"
Thomas Erskine, The Doctrine of Election

"Think not lightly of thy prayers, for He who heareth them thinketh not lightly of them"

St. Bernard

"One of these two things we ought steadfastly to hope: that God will grant either that which we desire, or that which He knows to be more profitable to us"
St. Bernard

"Art thou weak? Bless God thou hast life"

William Gurnall, The Christian in Full Armour

"The stronger the cry, the stronger the child, I warrant you"

William Gurnall, The Christian in Full Armour

" Sin makes men and women partakers of the devil's character now,
and of his condemnation hereafter "

Thomas Robinson, Homiletical Commentary on the Book of Daniel

" Do not prefer popular errors to unpopular truths "

Bp. Christopher Wordsworth; The Maccabees and the Church

" Unbelief ought to strengthen our faith, for it is foretold in Holy Scripture "

Bp. Christopher Wordsworth; The Maccabees and the Church

" The Love which is narrow cannot be Divine "

Bishop R. F. L. Blunt; (1893) The Christian in Home Life

" The love of truth is our only salvation "

Jean Guehenno of the French Academy

" Corrupt religion is the most prolific source of Atheism "

Bp. Christopher Wordsworth; (1849) Lectures on the Apocalypse

" Freedom of Speech, freedom of thought, freedom of action, freedom of conscience, ... , all this wonderful development is the fruit of Protestantism. "

Bp. David Cummins; (1868) Protestantism Not a Failure

" The old bottles-(he used to say)-would not receive new wine.- The long-resisted Spirit may give over striving! Fear to grow old in unbelief. "

Thomas Forret (1538) quoted in The Bulwark, 1859.

" If the minister forgets that he is a messenger of God, he can only avoid being a usurper over men by becoming their tool. "

John Frederick Denison Maurice; Lectures on the Apocalypse

" There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will "

Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet

"Idolatry is the religion of sight in opposition to that of faith"

Alfred Edersheim, Bible History

"In a word, Protestantism is revived Christianity"

James A. Wylie, The History of Protestantism

"God hath strength enough to give, but he hath no strength to deny,
the mercy he has promised to sinners who turn to him"

William Gurnall, The Christian in Full Armour

"Give what thou commandest and command what thou wilt"

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) The Confessions of St. Augustine

" Thou, O Lord, blessest the godly, but first Thou justifieth him when ungodly "

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) The Confessions of St. Augustine

" They err, who think that of the will of God to do this or that, there is no reason but His will "

Richard Hooker (I. ii. 3)

" We marvel, because we believe.
Infidelity wonders and believes not. To Unbelief all simple things are vain, and great things are impossible "

Tertullian

" When men are injured it is pride that makes them wish to be avenged "

Augustine, Homilies on the Gospels, Sermon 73

" Eternity itself cannot change the word of man into the Word of God "

Bp. Christopher Wordsworth

" The main principle whereupon our belief of all things therein contained dependeth, is, that the Scriptures are the oracles of God Himself "

Richard Hooker, III. viii. 13

" The Holy and Divine Scriptures are of themselves sufficient for showing the truth "

St. Athanasius

" Whosoever separates Scripture from the Church
is in imminent peril of losing both "

Christopher Wordsworth, On the Inspiration of the Holy Scripture

" (The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good,
but that God will make us good because He loves us"

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"All these mighty sins and devils,
make not one almighty sin, or an almighty devil"

William Gurnall, The Christian in Full Armour

" God loves his children should believe his word, not dispute his power; so true is that saying of Luther: 'God loves the obedient, not the cavilling.’
Deus amat curristas non quśristas "

William Gurnall, The Christian in Full Armour

" Dare to be holy despite men and devils "

William Gurnall, The Christian in Full Armour

" To will is more than to think, to exert our will into action more than both.
These are of God "

William Gurnall, The Christian in Full Armour

" The soul's strength to hear the Word is from God "

William Gurnall, The Christian in Full Armour

" Remember, therefore, that the object of your life be to be prepared for eternity. Unless you look forward to this, you lose your life entirely,
and then you had better never have been born "

John Amos Commenius

We are convinced, by a fatal experience, that from those who have made a traffic of religion has proceeded the oppression of the world, and that by them have been forged the chains which weigh so heavily on humanity

Luigi Desanctis