'God worked on Abraham and started when he was 75, and finished when he was 175; that’s a good, long while: a hundred years to make a man.' - Leonard Ravenhill

'God is deeply grieved by the thanklessness and ingratitude of which so many of us are guilty. When Jesus healed the ten lepers and only one came back to give Him thanks.' - R.A. Torrey

'Let Jesus have your whole heart. Let his blood, his wounds be continually before you.' - George Whitefield

'It is never said, 'Whom the Lord loveth He enricheth,' but it is said, 'Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.'' - C.H. Spurgeon

'We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.' - David Platt

'Jesus called His disciples to abandon all, take up their crosses, and follow Him (Luke 9:23). By contrast, the prosperity gospel offers carnal comforts, earthly riches, and worldly success.' - John MacArthur

'Material success is no measure of spiritual health. Nor is apparent affluence any criterion of real godliness.' - Phillip Keller

'All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.' - D.A. Carson

'The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.' - Hannah Whitall Smith

'The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.' - Francis A. Schaeffer

'I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst. For this He needs people who are prepared to allow everything to be served for the best.' - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

'Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, and takes off the relish of spiritual things - that to you is sin.' - Susannah Wesley

'It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.' - David Brainerd

'The Holy Spirit is able to make the Word as successful now as in the days of the apostles.' - Oswald J. Smith

'Can we travail for a drowning child; but not for a perishing soul?' - Oswald J. Smith

'The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.' - Charles Stanley

'Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache.' - J. Vernon McGee

'When you see that men have been wounded by the law, then it is time to pour in the gospel oil.' - Samuel Bolton

'George Mueller, nothing. The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.' - George Mueller

'God knows it all and is keeping a record even of those secrets we have repressed. Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.' - Adrian Rogers