"You cannot create true worship in peoples’ hearts by placing them in the right surroundings…Worship, very simply, is born of repentance. It’s the result of a Word- and Spirit-induced change of nature. The unrepentant, by definition, neither worship nor experience worship."
— Jonathan Leeman, Reverberation, p. 80.
"What any people must have is the presence of the living God. It is not enough in any church simply to have the right rituals and the right sermons and the right kind of music. If God does not manifest himself in some way, if he is not present, then what is the point of the whole exercise? Is religion merely some sort of structured ritual heritage? Or is it bound up with being reconciled to the God who made us, who holds us to account?"
— D.A. Carson, The God Who is There, p. 67.
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In the middle of all the changes in life, it’s good for us that there is One whom change cannot affect, whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
Whatever His attributes were in time past, they are now. His power, wisdom, justice, and truth, are alike unchanged. He’s been the refuge of His people, their stronghold in the day of trouble, and He is still their sure Helper. He is unchanged in His love. He has loved His people with ‘an everlasting love,’ and He loves them now as much as He ever did.
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— Charles H. Spurgeon, Morning by Morning, November 2nd.
"It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time."
— Charles Spurgeon
"Be as speedy in your repentance as you would have God speedy in his mercies…"
— Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance
"Love cannot be silent…it is like fire: where it burns in the heart, it will break forth at the lips."
— Thomas Watson
"Love is a humble grace; it does not walk abroad in state; it will creep upon its hands…"
— Thomas Watson
"Our Lord Jesus did not die for imaginary sins, but His heart’s blood was spilled to wash out deep crimson stains which nothing else can remove."
— Charles Spurgeon, All of Grace, p. 15.
