“Get close to God’s covenant people. Get to know your neighbors, and those with whom you transact business. Be a neighbor, as Christ has commanded. Get out of the rat race. Find a sense of place, and when you have, you will know that you must never leave. . . . Put your heart where your home is, and you will never be sorry” (R.C. Sproul Jr., Eternity in Our Hearts: Essays on the Good Life, 30).

“Young men, do not be deceived. Don’t think you can, at will, serve lusts and pleasures in your beginning and then go and serve God with ease at your latter end. Don’t think you can live with Esau, and then die with Jacob. It is a mockery to deal with God and your souls in such a fashion” (J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men, 9).

“What young men will be in all probability depends on what they are now, and they seem to forget this” (J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men, 8).

“I shelter my children. I would sooner have my children left out in a tornado than placed in the hands of a professional priest of the religion of the state, a government school teacher” (R.C. Sproul Jr., Eternity in Our Hearts: Essays on the Good Life, 23).

And government school teachers are professional priests of the religion of the state; fifty years ago this book demonstrated that function of American Education.

1 Corinthians 15:20,  But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

Some day I’ll die. How glorious will it be?–beholding the face of God and waiting for the full redemption of my body? And how much more glorious will it be at the last day when soul is united again to resurrected self-same body? How do I begin preparing now for such glorious things?

“Surely none are so crazy as those who are content to live unprepared to die” (J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men, 7).

“Children need to be sheltered, to be protected. They need to be protected from themselves, and from those who would lead them astray. They are not ready to reason out the will of God in all circumstances; far less are they ready to defeat temptation in whatever form it comes. While God certainly can and does use sin for god, just as He can use a storm, we cannot sin that providential grace might abound all the more” (R.C. Sproul Jr., Eternity in Our Hearts: Essays on the Good Life, 23).

“Maybe force-feeding isn’t the best way to convey the distinctive quality inherent in Bible reading, in spiritual reading” (Eugene H. Peterson, Eat This Book, 9).

James 3:5-6, Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

God’s tongue is the Holy Spirit, a fire that cleanses the whole body, but a sinner’s tongue lacks the Holy Spirit, so it is a fire that defiles the whole body.

“Leave nothing unsettled that is eternal. Run no risk when your soul is at stake. Believe me, the salvation of the soul is no easy matter. Every one needs a “great salvation,” whether young or old; all need to be born again–all need to be washed in Christ’s blood–all need to be sanctified by the Spirit. Happy is the man who does not leave these things uncertain, but never rests until he has the witness of the Spirit within him, testifying to him that he is a child of God” (J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men, 6).