“The image of God currently popular is that of a distracted Father, struggling in heartbroken desperation to get people to accept a Saviour of whom they feel no need and in whom they have very little interest. ”

— A.W. Tozer

“The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.”

— A.W. Tozer

“Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude.”

— A.W. Tozer

“The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.”

— A.W. Tozer

“Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.”

— A.W. Tozer

“They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“One cannot intelligently and heartily ask or accept a pardon until he sees and feels the fact and justice of his condemnation. . . ”

–Charles Finney

“[There must be] that kind of genuine and deep conviction which breaks the sinner and the backslider right down, and makes him unutterably ashamed and confounded before the Lord, until he is not only stripped of every excuse, but driven to go all lengths in justifying God and condemning himself.”

— Charles Finney

“That is what we mean by cheap grace, the grace which amounts to the justification of sin without the justification of the repentant sinner who departs from sin and from whom sins departs. ”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“The true convert prefers obedience for its own sake; he actually chooses it, and does it. The other purposes to be holy, because he knows that is the only way to be happy. The true saint chooses holiness for its own sake, and he is holy.”

— Charles Spurgeon, True and False Conversion