"The climax of God's happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people." (John Piper)

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling 'darkness' on the wall of his cell..." (C.S. Lewis)

"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may." (William Hazlitt)

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue." (Thomas Watson)

"There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself." (D.L. Moody)

"Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason---I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other---my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen." (Martin Luther)

"Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth." (Thomas Brooks)

"Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself." (Augustine)