Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue, but of the life; is not apprehended by the intellect and memory merely, like other branches of learning; but is received only when it possesses the whole soul, and finds its seat and habitation in the inmost recesses of the heart. ~John Calvin

Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.-Richard Halverson

Is not every fruitless professor of Christianity in dreadful danger of becoming a withered fig tree? There can be no doubt of it. So long as a man is content with the leaves of religion--with a name to live while he is dead, and a form of godliness without the power--so long his soul is in great peril. So long as he is satisfied with going to church or chapel, and receiving the Lord's supper, and being called a Christian, while his heart is not changed, and his sins not forsaken--then he is daily provoking God to cut him off without remedy. Fruit, fruit--the fruit of the Spirit, is the only sure proof that we are savingly united to Christ, and on our way to heaven. May this sink down into our hearts, and never be forgotten!~ J.C. Ryle,Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew, [Carlisle, PA:Banner of Truth, 1986], 270, 271. {Matthew 21:23-32}

When a person forgives another, he is promising to do three things about the intended wrongdoing: not to use it against the wrongdoer in the future; not to talk about it to others; and not to dwell on it himself.-Jay Adams

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it..-John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.-John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900