Straight through all the apparently tangled course of human history runs the accomplishment of God's eternal plan.- J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937), The Christian View of Man, The Macmillan Company, 1937, p. 80

Christianity is a religion built upon facts. Let us never lose sight of this. The first preachers did not go up and down the world, proclaiming an elaborate, artificial system of abstruse doctrines and deep principles. They made it their first business to tell men great plain facts. They went about telling a sin-laden world, that the Son of God had come down to earth, and lived for us, died for us, and risen again. The Gospel, at its first publication, was far more simple than many make it now. It was neither more nor less than the history of Christ.~ J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke volume 1, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986], 2.

Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world. - Thomas Manton

God is perfectly good. All the perfection we can arrive at in this life is sincerity. We may resemble God a little, but not equal him; he is infinitely perfect.- Thomas Watson

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it. - Richard Baxter