William Stern

“The choice is not whether you will be a Christian soldier or a Christian civilian but whether you will be a prepared Christian soldier or an unprepared one.”
― Iain M. Duguid, The Whole Armor of God: How Christ's Victory Strengthens Us for Spiritual Warfare

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
― Anonymous

“The clearest description of second-century worship, however, comes from the account of Justin Martyr in his First Apology – an account we will turn to again below. Justin writes: And on the day called Sunday all who live in the cities or in the country gather together in one place . . . we all hold this common gathering on Sunday, since it is the first day, on which God transforming darkness and matter made the Universe, and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead.113”
― Michael J. Kruger, Christianity at the Crossroads: How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church

“A carnal worshipper is taken with the beauty and magnificence of the temple; a spiritual worshipper desires to see the glory of God in the sanctuary (Psalm lxiii. 2), he pants after God: as he came to worship, to find God, he boils up in desires for God, and is loth to go from it without God, “the living God” (Psalm xlii. 2).”
― Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God