Quote of the Week - Martin Luther

“Christendom must have men who are able to floor their adversaries and take armor and equipment from the devil, putting him to shame. But this calls for strong warriors who have complete control of Scripture, can refute a false interpretation, know how to wrest the sword they wield, that is their Bible passages, from the hands of the adversaries and beat them back with them.”

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

Quote of the Week - Charles H. Spurgeon

This week's quote is from the "Prince of Preachers" - C.H. Spurgeon. Great quote on humility!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)

Quote of the Week - Nathanael Vincent

The quote below is from Nathanael Vincent's book "Attending Upon God Without Distraction."

"If we would attend upon God, we must come out from the world. Conformity to the world and walking after the course of it must cease. The most desirable good things of it must be condemned in comparison with God and the better and enduring substance. We shall never look and aim so as to obtain the things that are unseen and eternal unless the eye is shut against the things that are seen and temporal."

Nathanael Vincent (1638-1697)

Quote of the Week - John Calvin

Writing of the Christian life, John Calvin remarked:

"We are not our own, we belong to the Lord. We are not our own. Let our reasons and our wills then never predominate in our thinking and in our acting....Let us then forget ourselves as much as is possible."

John Calvin (1509 - 1564)

Quote of the Week - R.L. Dabney

I am currently reading a biography on R.L. Dabney and appreciated the quote below attributed to a sermon Dabney gave in 1849.

"Go to him. Say, have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David. Does he answer you not a word? Cry after him. Does he seem to neglect you? Fall at his feet and worship him and cry, Lord help me."

"I am a dog, but it was for dogs, that the crumbs of pardoning mercy are made. Therefore I ask as a dog."

Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898)

Quote of the Week - John Calvin

John Calvin's application of the third commandment in the Institutes of the Christian Religion:

"We ought to be so disposed in mind and speech that we neither think nor say anything concerning God and his mysteries, without reverence and much soberness; that in estimating his works we conceive nothing but what is honorable to him."

John Calvin (1509 - 1564)

Quote of the Week - John Calvin

"For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by his fatherly care, that he is the author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond him -- they will never yield him willing service. Yes, unless they establish their complete happiness in him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him." 

John Calvin (1509 - 1564)