There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its biblical sense, but something else and something less. - A. W. Tozer

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit. - John Knox

Puritan preaching addressed the mind with clarity. It addressed man as a rational creature. The Puritans loved and worshiped God with their minds. They viewed the mind as the palace of faith. They refused to set mind and heart against each other, but taught that knowledge was the soil in which the Spirit planted the seed of regeneration. Puritans thus preached that we need to think in order to be holy. - Joel R. Beeke in Whatever Happened to the Reformation? - ed. By Johnson and White - p. 245