“When we know God we do not cease to wonder, but we begin to be at home with wonders.”
Charles Spurgeon
Category: Quotes
God’s Happiness
“The climax of God’s happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people.”
John Piper
Hope
“When Christ died on the cross our hopes began, when he rose they were confirmed, when he went up on high they began to be fulfilled, when he comes a second time they will be realized.”
Charles Spurgeon
Forget Yourself
“The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. It is better to forget about yourself altogether.”
C.S. Lewis
Calvary
“Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.”
J.I. Packer
Bearing Our Cross
“We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.”
Vance Hanver
Transferred Sin
“The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save His church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.”
John Owen
Holy Amazement
“We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.”
John Owen