Quotable

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation: loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

—Francis Schaeffer

Christ calls men to carry a cross; we call them to have fun in His name....He calls them to holiness; we call them to a cheap and tawdry happiness that would have been rejected with scorn by the least of the Stoic philosophers....The contemporary moral climate does not favor a faith as tough and fibrous as that taught by our Lord and His apostles. The delicate, brittle saints being produced in our religious hothouses today are hardly to be compared with the committed, expendable believers who once gave their witness among men. And the fault lies with our leaders. They are too timid to tell the people all the truth. They are now asking men to give to God that which costs them nothing.

Our churches are filled (or one-quarter filled) with a soft breed of Christian that must be fed on a diet of harmless fun to keep them interested. About theology they know little....No wonder their moral and spiritual constitution is so frail. Such can only be called weak adherents of a faith they never really understood.

—A. W. Tozer

We do not become holy by looking into our own hearts. There we find only corruption. But as we look away from self altogether, “Looking unto Jesus,” as He is the object in which we delight, as we contemplate His holiness, purity, love, and compassion, His devotion to the Father’s will, we shall be transformed, imperceptibly to ourselves, perhaps, but none the less surely, into His blessed image.

—H. A. Ironside