Please submit guesses into the comments for this post, but do it without utilizing electronic searches of any kind (whether google, or any other source). Whoever attributes the most quotes gets a free “high five”.

Here is the the list of authors, a quite random and assorted bunch. In brackets besides each, there is an indication of how many of their quotes appear in the following list.

• Herman Bavinck (1)
• John Knox (2)
• Menno Simmons (1)
• James Boice (1)
• Matthew Henry (1)
• John Howard Yoder (1)
• Billy Graham (2)
• Stephen Charnock (1)
• John Calvin (1)
• Michael Horton (1)
• B.B. Warfield (1)
• Sam Waldron (1)
• N.T. Wright (2)
• Jacobus Arminus (2)
• Martin Luther (1)

Try to identify who said the following quote out of the aforementioned list.

Quote #1: “If we find some difficulty in perceiving…in the Old Testament…the revelation of the Trinity, we cannot help perceiving…in the New Testament…evidence that its writers felt no incongruity…between their doctrine of the Trinity and the Old Testament conception of God.”

Quote #2: “If God should judge us according to our worthiness…and not according to his…mercy, then I confess…that no man could stand before his judgment…Therefore it should be far from us that we should console ourselves with any thing but the grace of God through Christ Jesus; for it is he, alone…who has perfectly fulfilled the righteousness required by God.”

Quote #3: “You need imagination to live in God’s world. The Christian church has often been bad at encouraging imagination. People have been worried…about letting people imagine things, in case their imagination runs riot and they start imagining the wrong things, and so we’ve squelched it and squashed it”

Quote #4: “This doctrine of the sacred and undivided Trinity contains a mystery which far surpasses every human and angelical understanding, if it be considered according to the internal union which subsists between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and according to the relation among them of origin and procession. ”

Quote #5: “Whether or not the sixth commandment forbids all killing is still debated; in any case the first forbids nationalism”

Quote #6: “In other words, God does not only forgive us; God places us back in the position that Adam was, but even higher than Adam…We are justified as though we had never committed a sin, so that even God forgets our sin”

Quote #7:  “The confession of the holy trinity is the precious pearl which was entrusted for safekeeping and defense to the Christian church.”

Quote #8: “The Law shall never be my judge, by Christ’s grace. If I get no more good out of it (I shall find a severe enough judgement in the Gospel to humble, and to cast me down), it is, I grant, a good harsh friend to follow a traitor to the bar, and to chafe him till he come to Christ”

Quote #9: “Heaven is going to be one long eternal Sabbath day…There are a lot of you who, if you got to heaven, heaven would be hell for you, because you don’t like the Sabbath. And you don’t like to keep the Lord’s day in the Lord’s way. I believe that we need to get old-fashioned in keeping the Lord’s day. ”

Quote #10: “The God of the Bible is not weak; he is strong. He is all-mighty. Nothing happens without his permission or apart from his purposes — even evil. Nothing disturbs or puzzles him. His purposes are always accomplished. Therefore, those who know him rightly act with boldness, assured that God is with them to accomplish his own desirable purposes in their lives.”

Quote #11: “For how many do you see who habitually pray, sing, read, work and seem to be great saints, and yet never get so far as to know where they stand in respect of the chief work, faith; and so in their blindness they lead astray themselves and others; think they are very well off, and so unknowingly build on the sand of their works without any faith”

Quote #12: “Let us not stop short of all that God means us to do and to have as Christian parents. If you are a Christian, your child is a child of the Covenant, and God means him to have the engagement sign of the Covenant.”

Quote #13: “Concerning God, the primary object of theology, two things must be known, (1.) His nature, or what God is, or rather what qualities does he possess? (2.) Who God is, or to whom this nature must be attributed. These must be known, lest any thing foolish or unbecoming be ascribed to God, or lest another, or a strange one, be considered as the true God. ”

Quote #14: “There is, however, an implied contrast between the present condition in which believers labor and groan, and that final restoration. For they are now exposed to the reproaches of the world, and are looked upon as vile and worthless; but then they will be precious, and full of dignity, when Christ will pour forth his glory upon them.”

Quote #15: “Your profession must not be barren and void of good works…Ye must in all things aim at God’s honor; ye must eat, drink, sleep, buy, sell, sit, stand, speak, pray, read, and hear the word, with a heart-purpose that God may be honored…..Ye must show yourself an enemy to sin”

Quote #16:  “Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.”

Quote #17:  “The glory of God, communion with him, enjoyment of him, is the great end of a believer…There must first be a delight in God, before there can be a spiritual delight”

Quote #18: “In particular, the trinitarian object and shape of Christian worship means that, if we follow its logic, the true humanity of Jesus Christ is the source, model, and goal of our own becoming truly human.”

Quote #19: “Christians are under the moral law as revealed in the Ten Commandments as a rule of life. In other words, they keep the law as the authoritative instructions of their Savior for living.”

Quote #20: “To confess that God is holy is to say that he is not only quantitatively but qualitatively different from us. In other words, he isn’t simply better than we are, nicer, friendlier, more knowledgeable, more powerful, more loving. He is incomprehensible, unfathomable, unsearchable.”