”The word “fair” and the word “loving” as defined by whom? I tell people all the time, you want fair? Fair sends everybody to hell. You want what is just? Justice sends everyone to hell. I think what you want is grace, and grace is at the discretion of the giver. Is it not? And forgiveness is at the discretion of the forgiver, is it not? And [forgiveness is] on the terms of the one who has been offended.” - John MacArthur “The Doctrine of Actual Atonement – Part 2” GTY 10/2/07 Said in response to a comment that election and limited atonement don’t sound loving or fair.

“The amazing miracle of commanding a man who can’t respond and then giving him the power to respond is analogous to salvation. The gospel commands dead men to rise. [The gospel commands] dead men to believe. [The gospel commands] dead men to understand. [The gospel commands] dead men to repent. The gospel commands dead people to do, frankly, what they can’t do.” - John F. MacArthur Jr. “The Doctrine of Total Inability” 9/27/07 GTY

On D.L. Moody: “On Sunday night, October 8, 1871, while preaching at Farwell Hall, which was now being used because of the increased crowds, Moody asked his congregation to evaluate their relationships to Christ and return next week to make their decisions for Him. That crowd never regathered. While Sankey was singing a closing song, the din of fire trucks and church bells scattered them forever, for Chicago was on fire. The Y.M.C.A. building, church, and parsonage were all to be lost in the next 24 hours.” Between 200 & 300 people died in that fire. “I always think about D. L. Moody, the night he preached in Chicago and said - I want you people to go home and think about what I've said and come back tomorrow night ready to make a decision for Christ. And that night the Chicago fire broke out and a great portion of his audience was dead. He said I never told anybody tomorrow again.” - John MacArthur Jr "http://www.gty.org/Resources/transcripts/1378"

“We do well to consider that in the most moral culture this world will ever know, man will love sin. Unless you think that’s shocking, go back to the perfect environment in the Garden of Eden. And remember, there were only two people and they both chose sin. And they did it from innocence, what will humanity do from depravity? It doesn’t matter what age, doesn’t matter what kind of world they live in; depraved people love sin.” – John F. MacArthur Jr. "The Coming Earthly Kingdom of Jesus Christ" GTY 9/6

“The truth is always attacked, it is always attacked. We live in a modern world; evolution has carried out a massive assault on the truth by denying that there needs to be a cause for the effect of the universe. What kind of idiocy is that?” - John Macarthur “When God Abandons a Nation” http://www.gty.org/resources.phpsection=transcripts&aid=233571/

“We could talk about the new perspective on Paul which assaults the New Testament understanding of the doctrine of justification. We could talk about the openness of God which attacks the very nature of God. Perhaps I should say a word about that. Open theism is a new liberal agenda item that starts with the denial that God perfectly knows or controls the future. Open theism is the idea that God is open to the future. He has no idea what the future holds. He has no clue. He’s just like you and I. He’s trying to react to what is going on and He has no more foreknowledge of anything than you or I do because it hasn’t happened, therefore He can’t know about it. He doesn’t know what’s going to happen until people make choices. He doesn’t know what the choices will be and He’s responding like a very, very adept chess player doing His best to accomplish His will in counter response to the moves of all of us. This is a very, very popular, wide-spread, developing viewpoint. It has intruded into evangelical...quote: “evangelical theological society” which up to now has been unwilling to dismiss people who hold that view. It attacks the very nature of God Himself. It attacks the deity of God. God is not the God He claims to be. He does not speak truly of Himself when He says He knows the end from the beginning therefore God is a liar and it is rehearsal of exactly what we saw in the garden. Every assault by these critics that denies any portion of Scripture is a battle that has to be fought and a point at which we have to defend the authority of Scripture.” - John MacArthur (“Assorted Attacks on the Bible” http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/90-320.htm)

“Indifference to Scripture is not a mark of regeneration. Indifference to Scripture is not a mark of salvation. Indifference to Scripture is a mark of spiritual death.” - John MacArthur

“On one occasion when [Henry Drummond] was in England, he was invited to speak at a very uppity, snobbish, high class, west end, London club. Upon his arrival he found all of the members present, and everything was arranged for his message. And he began his speech with this very provocative truth, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, the entrance fee into the Kingdom of Heaven is nothing. However, the annual subscription is everything.’”

(John MacArthur, GTY “James the son of Alphaeus, Labbeus, and Simon the Zealot part 1” 6/11/07 quoting Henry Drummond)

“The greatest courage in the world is not the courage of an optimist. An optimist has courage because he believes the best will happen. The greatest courage in the world is the courage of the pessimist because he knows the worst is going to happen and is willing to go anyway.”

(John MacArthur, GTY “Matthew and Thomas Part 2” 6/8/07 – this quote is in the context of the pessimism of Thomas, the apostle, and his devotion to Christ))

“The immediate response to salvation is evangelism.”

(John MacArthur, GTY “Phillip and Bartholomew Part 1” 6/5/07)

“Invariably, when someone first becomes a Christian, their first reaction – in the warmth and joy of that newfound life – is to find a friend and to tell that person what happened.”

(John MacArthur, GTY “Phillip and Bartholomew Part 1” 6/5/07)

“The truth is always attacked, it is always attacked. We live in a modern world; evolution has carried out a massive assault on the truth by denying that there needs to be a cause for the effect of the universe. What kind of idiocy is that?”

(John MacArthur, GTY “When God Abandons a Nation” 5/27/07)

“There’s a real sense, for thousands of years, up until Christ, there was a moral scandal in the universe. Divine righteousness seemed to be sleeping. Some might [have] asked if it even existed. Where is the God of justice, [because] men sin and they live.” – Dr. John F. MacArthur Jr.

(Speaking about the death of Christ as necessary for salvation/justification & without it, any forgiveness would have been evil. (4/6/7 radio; heard on 4/11/07)

“Cheap forgiveness is a moral evil.” – Dr. John F. MacArthur Jr.

(Speaking about the death of Christ as necessary for salvation/justification & without it, any forgiveness would have been evil. (4/6/7 radio; heard on 4/11/07))

“A bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” – Dr. John F. MacArthur Jr.

“The damned think they’re good; the saved know they’re wicked.” – John F. MacArthur Jr.

(“Who Can be Right With God? Part 2” GTY TV 3/25/07)