I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. - Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796

A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. - Brendan Behan, 1923 - 1964

Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; but the Father, for love (see Romans 8:32)! -Octavius Winslow

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-

driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness,

prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift

toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward

superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of

lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward

prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have

escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince

ourselves we have been liberated.-D. A. Carson (b. 1946), For the Love of God: A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God's Word, v. II [1999], reprint, Good News Publishers, 2006,

But when self-confidence is removed — when the soul is stripped by conviction — when the light of the spirit reveals the loathsome state of the heart — when the power of the creature fades, how precious is Jesus! As the drowning mariner clutches the floating’ spar — as the dying man looks to some great physician — as the criminal values his pardon, so do we then esteem the deliverer of our souls as the Prince of the kings of the earth.~Charles Spurgeon