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“There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back." â€�”
― Jim Fiebig

“The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself & HistoryClass for The American Promise 4e V1

“Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it "the atmosphere of hell"; and I believe it is so.”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“the scripture says "oppression makes it even a wise man mad"...”
― harriet jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself”
― John Owen, The Mortification of Sin

“There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...”
― John Owen

“The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.”
― John Owen, Communion with God

“When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.”
― John Owen, Sin and Temptation:The Challenge to Personal Goodness (Regent College Reprint)

“To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.”
― John Owen

“Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.”
― John Owen, Sin and Temptation:The Challenge to Personal Goodness (Regent College Reprint)

“The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.”
― John Owen

“But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving civil rule and government ... moral virtues ... physical strength ... and intellectual abilities.”
― John Owen, The Holy Spirit

“Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.â€� It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.”
― John Owen, The Holy Spirit

“Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls”
― John Owen, The Holy Spirit

“Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature â€� He is a holy intelligent person.”
― John Owen, The Holy Spirit

“When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great powerful feelings and emotions which cannot be resisted. He does not possess men as evil spirits take possession of their victims.”
― John Owen, The Holy Spirit

“No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.”
― John Owen, The Glory Of Christ

“The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.”
― John Owen, The Glory Of Christ

“Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.”
― John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation: Three Classic Works by John Owen

“Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.”
― Arthur W. Pink

“There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

“When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.”
― Arthur W. Pink, An Exposition of Hebrews

“We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.”
― Arthur Pink

“Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Elijah

“No doctrine of Redemption that in any way casts the slightest shadow over the high mountain of Divine Sovereignty can be tolerated for a moment.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Satisfaction of Christ

“Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.”
― Arthur W. Pink

“How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us with a pedestal on which to display ourselves. But God will not share His glory with another, and therefore does He "hide" those who may be tempted to take some of it unto themselves. It is only by retiring from public view and getting alone with God that we can learn our own nothingness.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Elijah

“The craving today is for something light and spicy, and few have patience, still less desire, to examine carefully that which would make a demand both upon their hearts and”
― Arthur W. Pink

“She left her water pot because she had now found a well of 'living water.' She had come to the well for literal water and that was what her mind was set on. But now that she had obtained salvation, she did not think any more about her water pot. It is always this way. Once our souls truly perceive Christ, once we know Him and receive Him as our personal Savior, we turn away from what we used to think about. Her mind was now fixed on Christ, and she had no thought of well, water, or water pot." Granted, even after we come to Christ and learn to drink of His living water, there can be a time when we must learn how to leave the other "water behind" and it is certainly not always an instantaneous exchange of water, like the woman at the well did. We are not saying that it always has to happen in this manner, but what we are saying is that as we drink of Christ's living water we are able to leave behind the sinful water.”
― Arthur Pink

“Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.”
― Arthur Pink