Quotes From Dead Guys
“In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.”
-J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism
“Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground. I know we have won many a soul through pleasure. All the same, it is His (God’s) invention, not ours. He made the pleasures: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Be a sinner and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger”
-Letter from Martin Luther to Melachthon, August 1st, 1521
“Peace if possible, truth at all costs”
-Martin Luther
“[He] who loves not a woman, wine, and song remains a fool his whole life long”
-Martin Luther
“Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, moon, and stars have been worshipped. Shall we pluck them out of the sky.”
-Martin Luther
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar. I have felt grateful to God, and blessed his name.”
-Charles H. Spurgeon
“The addition of the vine is owing to God’s superabundant liberality.”
-John Calvin
“He that looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast in his heart.”
-C. S. Lewis
“Oh, if I ever get to heaven it will be because God wills, and nothing else; for I never did anything of myself but get away from God.”
-David Brainard, April 1st, 1742
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
-Charles H. Spurgeon
“We’re not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us, we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
-C. S. Lewis
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
-C. S. Lewis
“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
-C. S. Lewis
“He that returns to sin by implication charges God with some evil. If a man puts away his wife it implies he knows some fault by her. To leave God and return to sin is tacitly to asperse the Deity.”
-Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance
“Because of mercy men presume and think they may go on in sin, but should a king’s clemency make his subjects rebel?…God will hardly show those mercy who sin because mercy abounds.”
-Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance”
