Ralph Strong

“There is no hope for you but in Christ. Rest assured that all the mercy of God is concentrated in the Cross. I hear some talk about the uncovenanted mercies of God—there is no such things. The mercies of God are all emptied out into the Covenant. God has put all His grace into the Person of Christ and you shall have none elsewhere. Trust, then, in Christ—so you shall be blessed, but you shall be blessed nowhere else.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859

“We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.”
― Scott Hahn

“Beloved,  let us love one another, for love is from God, and  whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because  God is love.”
― Anonymous

“to be useful, to be pleasant with our playmates, respectful to superiors, just to all, black or white, good to the poor not showing pride or selfishness but kindness and good will . . . and to see to it that we looked to our own, more than to others’ faults.”
― David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West