If we rush through Bible reading and prayer time, we miss the blessing and the power. Often because of misplaced priorities we unwittingly limp along on a starvation diet of Scripture, forgetting that we have an appointment with Satan, our deceiver and accuser, the minute we rise from our reading chair. Our time in the Word and in prayer should change us. Through it, we should be transformed, equipped, encouraged, prepared. We should never neglect our Bible reading and prayer time, knowing that we do so only at our own spiritual peril.

- Rosaria Butterfield, Openness Unhindered

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death. I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside. I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

- C.S. Lewis

The Word of God is the only power that can subdue the rebellion of our heart. There is a power in our fallen nature which revolts against divine truth, and which nothing human can overcome. No teaching of man will do it, not even that of your father and mother. The teaching of the church, and of the most beloved pastors will not do it, nor time-worn tradition, which is the teaching of the ages. All this is as powerless as the slenderest thread to lift the weight which presses us down. To make the Kingdom of God enter our hearts we need a battering-ram that can overthrow the strongest walls, and that ram is the Word of God.

- Merle d'Aubigne (1794 - 1872)

God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools and He has not been disappointed. Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

- Justice Antonin Scalia

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily 

laid on them by their own governments.

- George Washington

God formed us originally for himself, and has therefore given the human mind such a vastness of desire, such a thirst for happiness as He alone can answer; and therefore, till we seek our rest in him, 

in vain we seek it elsewhere.

- Letters of John Newton

Whenever people agree with me 

I always feel I must be wrong.

- Oscar Wilde

I will pour water upon the thirsty one.

- Isaiah 44: 3

Til sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

- Thomas Watson

In peace I will both lie down and sleep; 

for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 4: 8

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

- Jesus of Nazareth

God subdued me.

(John Calvin's entire account of his conversion)

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

- John Newton