Charles Wade

“The assurance of God’s love, the promise of the Spirit’s indwelling presence, the knowledge of our pardon, the access to his presence, the power to overcome our sinful habits, the knowledge of our pardon—all these things are abstractions until they are inwardly received for our actual use. They must not only grip our heart but shape our life through the operation of God’s Spirit.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“we must proclaim the gospel because history has shown that where the gospel is merely assumed it will slowly be perverted and lost.”
― Bruce Ashford, Theology and Practice of Mission: God, the Church, and the Nations

“Thomas’s procedure, then, may be summarized in three steps: (1) Fulfilled prophecies and miracles make it credible that the Scriptures taken together as a whole are a revelation from God. (2) As a revelation from God, Scripture is absolutely authoritative. (3) Therefore, those doctrines taught by Scripture that are neither demonstrably provable nor empirically evident may be accepted by faith on the authority of Scripture.”
― William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics

“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
― Martin Luther