If our words be not sharpened, and pierce not as nails, they will hardly be felt by stony hearts. To speak slightly and coldly of heavenly things is nearly as bad as to say nothing of them at all. - Richard Baxter

The Christian is the real radical of our generation, for he
stands against the monolithic, modern concept of truth as
relative. But too often, instead of being the radical, standing
against the shifting sands of relativism, he subsides into
merely maintaining the status quo. If it is true that evil is
evil, that God hates it to the point of the cross, and that
there is a moral law fixed in what God is in Himself, then
Christians should be the first into the field against what is
wrong.- Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), The God Who is There [1968], in The Francis A. Schaeffer Trilogy, Good News Publishers, 1990, p. 118

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.- Johann von Goethe

Realize that you must lead a dying life; the more a man dies to himself, the more he begins to live unto God.-Thomas Kempis

The advantages of afflictions, when the Lord is pleased to employ them for the good of his people, are many and great. –John Newton