Auteur inconnu
God is distinct from His creation. He isn’t a part of it; it isn’t a part of Him. He didn’t “arise” from it; it didn’t’ “arise” from Him. He spoke, and where nothing was before, it was.
Unknown author
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Auteur inconnu
God is distinct from His creation. He isn’t a part of it; it isn’t a part of Him. He didn’t “arise” from it; it didn’t’ “arise” from Him. He spoke, and where nothing was before, it was.
Unknown author
Dale Ralph Davis, 1 Samuel, Christian Focus Publications, p. 76.
Sometimes the Father may box us in, place us in a situation in which, one by one, all our secondary helps and supports are taken from us, in order that, defenseless, we may lean on His mercy alone – prayer. Once we see this, we will no longer regard prayer as a pious cop-out but as our only rational activity.
Dale Ralph Davis, 1 Samuel, Christian Focus Publications, p. 76.
Jean Chrysostome
Henry Smith
Mercy hath a heaven, and justice a hell, to display itself to eternity, but long-suffering hath only a short-lived earth.
Henry Smith
Je ne peux pas imaginer qu'il soit possible pour quiconque de recevoir le Christ comme Sauveur, et pourtant de ne pas le recevoir en tant que Seigneur. Un homme qui est vraiment sauvé par la Grâce n'a pas besoin d'être dit qu'il a des obligations solennelles de servir le Christ. La nouvelle vie en lui le lui dit. Au lieu de le considérer comme un fardeau, il se rend volontiers -corps, âme et esprit – au Seigneur qui l'a racheté, en estimant que c'est son service raisonnable.
Charles Spurgeon
Gustaf Dalman
[Jesus] did not consider the political dominance of the Romans to be any infringement of the sovereignty of God. It is not the rule of foreigners over the nation, but the rule of all ungodly powers in the inner life of men, that the sovereignty of God aims at removing.
Gustaf Dalman
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 14.
The culture to which (the church) would conform in order to be relevant becomes so inextricably entwined with antagonism to the Gospel that to conform to it must mean a loss of the Gospel itself. In such a day, we must re-hear the Bible and re-imagine the concept of successful ministry not as necessarily immediately fruitful but as demonstrably faithful to God’s Word… Simply put, we need churches that are self-consciously distinct from the culture. We need churches in which the key indicator of success is not evident results but persevering biblical faithfulness. We need churches that help us recover those aspects of Christianity that are distinct from the world, and that unite us.
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 14.
Richard Baxter
There is a great deal of difference between the desires of heaven in a sanctified man and an unsanctified. The believer prizes it above earth, and had rather be with God than here… but to the ungodly there [seems] nothing more desirable than this world; and therefore he only chooses heaven before hell, but not before earth.
Richard Baxter
J.C. Ryle
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
J.C. Ryle
Phil Johnson
Doctrine is not an end to itself. After you’ve learned doctrine, there is always a therefore. Doctrine is inherently practical.
Phil Johnson
Derek Prime et Alistair Begg
We are all out of our depth in pastoral work. Our confidence must never be in our expertise or training or experience, but in God’s ability to use frail instruments filled with His Spirit. For this reason all pastoral work must be linked with prayer. Without the enabling grace of God, no encouragement, exhortation, admonition, or spiritual counsel will do any good; they must be backed by prayer (cf. Romans 15:5-6)
Derek Prime and Alistair Begg
Je crois que l'intention de l'Écriture Sainte était de persuader les hommes des vérités nécessaires au salut ; telles que ni la science ni d'autres moyens ne pouvaient les rendre crédibles, mais seulement la voix du Saint-Esprit.
GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) SCIENTIFIQUE ITALIEN
LETTRE AU PÈRE BERNEDETTO CASTELLI, 1613
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation;such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
GALILEO GALILEI (1564–1642) ITALIAN SCIENTIST
LETTER TO FATHER BERNEDETTO CASTELLI, 1613
O Dieu, ouvre mes yeux pour connaître la tâche que je suis seul à pouvoir accomplir et donne-moi la grâce de l'accomplir. Qu'il me soit fait selon ta parole.
RICHARD HARRIES, ÉVÊQUE D'OXFORD
LA PRIÈRE ET LA POURSUITE DU BONHEUR, 1985
O God, open my eyes to know the task which only I can do and give me grace to do it. Be it unto me according to thy word.
RICHARD HARRIES, BISHOP OF OXFORD
PRAYER AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, 1985
Si la sincérité des premiers disciples n'est pas en cause, certains ont imaginé qu'ils aient été abusés, victimes d'une hallucination forcément collective, due au traumatisme causé par le supplice et le deuil de leur maître. C'est effectivement l'alternative la plus sérieuse. Mais cette théorie se heurte à un problème : pour un Juif du premier siècle, l'idée qu'un homme soit vivant avec un corps en terre n'a aucun sens. L'idée d'une résurrection spirituelle de Jésus (de ses idées, de son message, etc.) est un nouvel anachronisme. Et il aurait été facile d'aller contrôler la chose directement sur le lieu de sa sépulture.
Auteur inconnu
La mention des "stratagèmes" du diable nous rappelle la ruse par laquelle le mal et la tentation se présentent dans nos vies. Le mal a rarement l'air mauvais jusqu'à ce qu'il atteigne son but ; il s'introduit en paraissant attrayant, désirable et parfaitement légitime. C'est un piège appâté et camouflé.
Klyne Snodgrass
Mention of the “schemes” of the devil reminds us of the trickery by which evil and temptation present themselves in our lives. Evil rarely looks evil until it accomplishes its goal; it gains entrance by appearing attractive, desirable, and perfectly legitimate. It is a baited and camouflaged trap
Klyne Snodgrass
Edward Welch, When People are Big and God is Small, 1997, p. 206.
We should remember that it is through Christ’s death that we are reconciled to God and each other. He has made us one, and we set our hearts on pursuing unity in love. The Lord’s Supper is a great time to pray and plan for oneness with our brothers and sisters. It is a time to explore new ways to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving.
Edward Welch, When People are Big and God is Small, 1997, p. 206.
Auteur inconnu, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 4.
Most Christians do not give God a chance to show His delight in granting His children’s petitions; for their requests are so vague and indefinite. If this is so, it is not surprising that prayer is so often a mere form – man almost mechanical repetition, day by day, of certain phrases; a few minutes’ “exercise” morning and evening.
Unknown Author, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 4.
John Angell James, Christian Love, 1828.
It is a very common supposition that it is an easy thing to be a Christian. And if to be a Christian were nothing more than going to a place of worship, indulging in pious emotions, subscribing to religious institutions, and professing certain religious opinions – the supposition would be correct – for nothing is more easy than all this! But if the spirit of true piety is poverty of spirit, humility, self-abasement, forgiveness of insults, patience under provocation, penitence, meekness, purity, peaceableness, thirsting after righteousness – then must it be obvious to everyone who knows his own heart, that to be a true Christian is the most difficult thing in the world!
John Angell James, Christian Love, 1828.
Roy Clements
Jesus is right. It is not the Christian doctrine of heaven that is a myth, but the humanistic dream of utopia.
Roy Clements
Richard Baxter
Take heed to yourselves, because the tempter will more ply you with his temptations than other men. If you will be the leaders against the prince of darkness, he will spare you no further than God restraints him. He bears the greatest malice to those that are engaged to do him the greatest mischief. As he hates Christ more than any of us, because He is the General of the field, the Captain of our salvation, and does more than all the world besides against his kingdom; so does he hate the leaders under Him, more than the common soldiers: he knows what a rout he may make among them, if the leaders fall before their eyes.
Richard Baxter
C. Matthew McMahon
Preaching is not just morally edifying speech. It is not simply a pep-rally to excite the listeners to a day or two of penitential service. It is taking the dominion of God and placing it within the deepest reaches of the soul of those He is ministering to. It is screwing truth into men’s minds in such a way as to enthrall the heart with more of Jesus Christ. Preaching is a spiritual infection which ought to impregnate the hearer with the life of God and Christ.
C. Matthew McMahon
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s ground. I know we have won many a soul through pleasure. All the same, it is His invention, not ours. He made the pleasures; all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden. Hence we always try to work away from the natural condition of any pleasure to that in which it is least natural, least redolent of its Maker, and least pleasurable. An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula.
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
1. Qu'il reçoive le message de Dieu... dans une compréhension spirituelle aussi bien que mentale (1 Cor. 2:9-16).
2. Que le message de Dieu saisisse d'abord son propre cœur dans une forte conviction (1 Thes. 1:5).
3. Qu'il transmette clairement et correctement le message de Dieu par la puissance de l'Esprit dans une communication efficace (1 Thes. 1:5).
4. Que l'Esprit utilise le message pour produire une réponse et un changement appropriés, une transformation spirituelle (2 Cor. 3:18).
5. Que l'ensemble du processus et le produit fini accompliront le dessein de Dieu dans la glorification de Dieu par le Christ (1 Cor. 10:31 ; 1 Pi 4:11).
Henry Holloman
Behind every good biblical preacher is much hard labor in preparation (1 Tim 5:17; 2 Tim 2:15). However, only prayer can assure that his work is not wasted and that his message will spiritually impact the hearers. As the biblical preacher interweaves prayer with his preparation, he should focus on certain petitions:
1. That he will receive God’s message…in spiritual as well as mental comprehension (1 Cor. 2:9-16).
2. That God’s message will first grip his own heart in strong conviction (1 Thes. 1:5).
3. That he will clearly and correctly convey God’s message in the power of the Spirit in effective communication (1 Thes. 1:5).
4. That the Spirit will use the message to produce proper response and change, spiritual transformation (2 Cor. 3:18).
5. That the whole process and finished product will accomplish God’s purpose in glorification of God through Christ (1 Cor. 10:31; 1 Pet 4:11).
Henry Holloman
Si nous, chrétiens, voulons comprendre les psaumes, nous devons garder à l'esprit que les racines de leur pensée se trouvent dans le passé, dans l'Ancien Testament, tandis que leur épanouissement s'étend dans un avenir lointain, jusqu'à la fin du monde, jusqu'au ciel lui-même.
PIUS DRIJVERS, THÉOLOGIEN NÉERLANDAIS
LES PSALMES : LEUR STRUCTURE ET LEUR SIGNIFICATION, 1965
If we Christians wish to understand the psalms, we must bear in mind that the roots of their thought lie in the past, in the Old Testament, while their blossoming reaches out into the far future, to the end of the world, to heaven itself.
PIUS DRIJVERS, DUTCH THEOLOGIAN
THE PSALMS: THEIR STRUCTURE AND MEANING, 1965
Auteur inconnu
God delays in answering our prayers because men would pluck their mercies green; God would have them ripe.
Unknown Author
Auteur inconnu, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 6.
When we confess that we “never get answers to our prayers,” we are condemning not God, or His promises, or the power of prayer, but ourselves. There is no greater test of spirituality than prayer.
Unknown Author, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 6.
Supprimer la conscience ou la violer délibérément est mortel pour notre bien-être spirituel. Désobéir à la conscience est en soi un péché (Romains 14:14, 23 ; Jacques 4:17), même si la conscience est ignorante ou mal informée. Et supprimer la conscience équivaut à la brûler avec un fer chaud (1 Timothée 4:2), la laissant insensible et supprimant ainsi dangereusement une défense vitale contre la tentation (1 Corinthiens 8:10).
John MacArthur, The Book on Leadership, 2004, p. 79.
Suppressing the conscience or deliberately violating it is deadly to our spiritual well-being. To disobey the conscience is itself a sin (Romans 14:14, 23; James 4:17), even if the conscience is ignorant or is misinformed. And to suppress the conscience is tantamount to searing it with a hot iron (1 Timothy 4:2), leaving it insensitive and thereby dangerously removing a vital defense against temptation (1 Corinthians 8:10).
John MacArthur, The Book on Leadership, 2004, p. 79.