112 Quotes by John Webster

The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice.

O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

…The heart of the matter, the heart of the Christian message, is constituted by a fearful question and a merciful answer: What must I do to be saved? Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved.

We desperately need pardon. We need to have the past erased. We need, somehow, to have sin dealt with so that it no longer controls us and makes the present the slave of the past.

The might of God isn’t infinite energy which could break out anywhere and do anything; it’s not a shapeless force. God’s might is God’s might, the infinite resourcefulness of the God of grace.

When we hear prophecy, we may not and must not treat it with cool detachment; prophecy isn’t a matter for our appraisal but for our attention.

…We know in advance what’s going to be said, and so we forget to listen….

Why is it that we often go away from Scripture unmoved, unaffected, dull? In the end, it’s because we refuse to be schooled by Christ.