Sally Preece

“But behavioral reform has no bearing on people’s relationship with God. It has no means to deliver them out of the bondage of sin into the kingdom of Christ. The best that morality can do is turn people into another batch of condemned Pharisees.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Christ's Call to Reform the Church: Timeless Demands From the Lord to His People

“A lot of preaching today puts all the stress on the sinner’s hostility to God, and I fear it tends to give sinners the impression that all that is needed for salvation is their own free-will decision to stop being at odds with God. The idea of a sacrificial atonement that propitiates God has all but disappeared from the message Christians proclaim to the world.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Paul: Embracing the Good News at the Heart of Paul's Teachings

“The New Testament without the miracles would be far easier to believe. But the trouble is, it would not be worth believing. Without the miracles the New Testament would contain an account of a holy man—not a perfect man, it is true, for He was led to make lofty claims to which He had no right—but a man at least far holier than the rest of men. But of what benefit would such a man, and the death which marked His failure, be to us?”
― J. Gresham Machen, Selected Writings of J. Gresham Machen

“There is nothing wrong with raising questions, pursuing possible answers, and searching for evidence. All these are processes of thought that stop short of making judgments. The problem is not that the judgments of faith are themselves improper, let alone blasphemous, for judgments are part and parcel of the thinking process that God has given us. The problem in this situation is not that we make judgments on God but that we make judgments at all when we have insufficient grounds on which to do so. Once again it is not the result of too much thinking but of the wrong sort of thinking.”
― Os Guinness, God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt