Quotes From Dead Dudes

"Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace."
- C.H. Spurgeon

"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation."
- C.H. Spurgeon

"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting."
- Francis Schaeffer

"Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves"
-Francis Schaeffer

"All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit"
- John Owen

“Mortification of sin by self-strength, carried on by ways of self-discipline, unto the end of self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.”
- John Owen

"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence"
-John Calvin

"True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will"
-Jonathan Edwards

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess"
-Martin Luther

"Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God"
-Martin Luther

"There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow."
-Martin Luther

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever"
-St. Aquinas

"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures"
-St. Aquinas