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“If we do glory in the cross of Christ”
― Paul Washer, The Preeminent Christ: God's Beautiful and Unchanging Gospel

“I will excuse from this duty anyone who can make sin give up in its war against him. If sin will spare him grief even one day or in even one spiritual duty – assuming he knows the full reality of the spiritual nature of obedience and the subtlety of sin – then let him take a well-deserved break from the battle. But we know this is something sin will never do. Believers whose souls long to be delivered from the troubling and persistent power of indwelling sin know there is no safety against it except through constant warfare.”
― John Owen, The Mortification of Sin

“Biblically, then, neither music nor song is merely a matter of entertainment or amusement. Both are very serious business, both culturally and religiously. Song is the divinely instituted, divinely commanded, and divinely regulated means of responding to God's great works of creation, preservation, and deliverance. Worship song is both the remarkable privilege and the solemn duty of the redeemed. Therefore, to suggest that worship song is "merely" or "just" anything,
whatever that "anything" is, is to deny the very teaching of Scripture about the importance of worship song in God's economy-an importance so great that it characterizes the life of the redeemed in the world to come.”
― T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can't Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal

“You will find that a good many Christian-political writers think that Christianity began going wrong”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters