David Wile

“Mass madness, if it’s going to last more than a week or two, requires mass media or mass government or the synergistic efforts of both. It isn’t just that the pretense that a man can marry a man will put religious believers at a disadvantage. It’s that it must set that ordinary tribeswoman in its sights, regardless of her religion. It’s not just her faith she must renounce. She must renounce her common sense. She must not be allowed even to think that the pretense is insane. She must be re-educated to believe that two fingers are three fingers, or that the sun rises in the west, or that the child in her womb is really a rock, or that excrement is nutritious, or anything else that no sensible person would ever come to discover on her own.”
― Anthony Esolen, Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity

“Despondency and despair are never excusable in the Christian, and must be steadily resisted. We need to make up our minds that if by grace we are determined to follow the example which Christ has left us, we shall have enemies—especially in the religious world—who will scruple at no misrepresentations of our motive and actions. We must learn to undervalue our reputations and be content to be regarded as "the offscourings of all things:" we must seek grace to emulate Him who "set His face like a flint:" (Isa. 50:7), who "endured the cross, despising the shame." (Heb. 12:2) Unless we cultivate His spirit we shall be at a great disadvantage, when sufferings come upon us.33”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“One often hears it stated (usually by someone with a surface knowledge of Pink) that he was an odd character, or that he was an isolationist, or that he had difficulty getting along with others. The danger is that someone might use this to destroy Pink's influence. The impression is left that such a man could not be worthy of our attention, or that he would have nothing to say that would be of interest or benefit to one who is serious about the service of God and the reaching of a lost world with the gospel of Christ. We must remember that whatever Pink's failures might have been, which as we have seen were many, and which he admitted were many also, it cannot be denied, as one reads his writings extensively, that he had a heart for God and sought to live and write for the glory of God supremely. His writings are warm and powerful, rich and God-centered, practical and uplifting, and spiritually moving.”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Could it be also that Pink was lacking in love and grace and mercy towards the churches and pastors of his day, in an hour when he could have shown them the truth by preaching and teaching them with a spirit of love and grace and mercy?”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write