Verbatim

Quotations on the
the Good News

Various Saints

ome unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28).

One said to me lately, "Oh, sir, I am the biggest sinner that ever lived!" I replied, "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners" (1 Tim. 1:15). "But I have not any strength." "While we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died" (Rom. 5:6).

"Oh, but," he said, "I have been utterly ungodly." "Christ died for the ungodly" (Rom. 5:6). "But I am lost." "Yes," I said, "The Son of Man has come to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10). I said to this man, "You have the brush in your hand, and at every stroke it looks as if you were quoting Scripture."
Thomas Scott

The sum of all isthe death and bloodshedding of Jesus Christ hath wrought, and doth effectually procure, for all those that are concerned in it, eternal redemption, consisting in grace here and glory hereafter.
Alister McGrath

The wrath of God is upon you philosophers, upon you scientists, you men who are monotheists as well as upon you who are pluralists, upon you who recognize the supernatural as well as upon you who do not recognize the supernatural. . . . But there is hope; there is hope through repentance. I speak of the Creator God who in Jesus of Nazareth came down to earth to die for the sins of men, and was raised for their justification. Through Him there is pardon for your sins, for men of all classes, for common men, for philosophers and wise men, too . . . . Will you not then repent and bow to Him now? Kiss the Son lest He be angry with you in the judgment day.
George Marston

Temporarily set aside the question of whether [Christianity] is true. Consider only what the world would be like if it were true. What a difference! Instead of a grey world of matter and motion and chance, in which anything could happen, but nothing much ever does, the world would be the artistic creation of the greatest mind imaginable, with a dazzling beauty and fascinating logic. It would be a history with a drama, a human interest, a profound subtlety and allusiveness more illuminating than the greatest novelist could produce. That divine history would have a moral grandeur that would turn all the world's evil to good. Most amazingly: the world would be under the control of a being somehow, wonderfully, akin to ourselves!
J. Gresham Machen

I believe in God the Father Almighty. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord; who was born by the Holy Ghost of the virgin Mary; was crucified under Pontius Pilate and was buried; the third day He rose from the dead; He ascended into heaven; and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. And in the Holy Ghost; the holy Church; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body.
J.I. Packer

The Glory of God, and, as our only means to glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
John Blanchard

You have been once more warned today, while the door of the ark yet stands open. You have, as it were, once again heard the knocks of the hammer and axe in the building of the ark, to put you in mind that a flood is approaching. Take heed therefore that you do not still stop your ears, treat these warnings with a regardless heart, and still neglect the great work which you have to do, lest the flood of wrath suddenly come upon you, sweep you away, and there be no remedy.