La prière, c'est l'impuissance plus la foi.
Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 19.
Prayer is helplessness plus faith.
Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 19.
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Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 19.
Prayer is helplessness plus faith.
Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 19.
Randy Smith
Peacemaking suggestions when seeking conflict resolution with another: Pray before, during and after the time together (1 Thessalonicians 5:17). Get together and talk about the matter face-to-face (i.e. not an email). Be sure to go to the individual in a loving and reasonable and gentle manner (1 Corinthians 4:21; Ephesians 4:2; 1 Timothy 6:11). Make sure your heart is right. Make sure you have removed the log from your own eye before you seek to remove the speck from your brother’s (Matthew 7:3-5). Go seeking to believe the best, hear the other side of the story (Proverbs 18:17). Attack the problem not the person, value the relationship more than the issue. Deal with one problem at a time. Find common ground – I hope as Christians you both want God’s glory and unity – start there (1 Corinthians 10:31)! Add how you may have contributed to the problem – people will always listen to how you might have wronged them (Proverbs 28:13). Be prepared to extend and receive forgiveness if appropriate (Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13). Seek to fully reconcile the relationship and put the matter behind you. Remember, there is a big difference between forgiveness and reconciliation.
Randy Smith
Carl Sagan
(Extrait d'une introduction à "Une brève histoire du temps" de Stephen Hawking)
“We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. We give little thought to the machinery that generates the sunlight that makes life possible, to the gravity that glues us to an Earth that would otherwise send us spinning off into space, or to the atoms of which we are made and on whose stability we fundamentally depend. Except for children (who don’t know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spend much time wondering why nature is the way it is; where the cosmos came from, or whether it was always here; if time will one day flow backward and effects precede causes; or whether there are ultimate limits to what humans can know.”
Carl Sagan
(From an introduction to “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking)
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 99.
If our conversion, our turning, is basically understood to be something we do ourselves instead of being something God does in us, then we misunderstand it. Conversion certainly includes our own actions. We must make a sincere commitment. We must make a self-conscious decision. Even so, conversion – real conversion – is more than that. Scripture is clear in teaching that we are not all journeying toward God – some having found Him, others still seeking. Instead, Scripture presents us as needing to have our hearts replaced, our minds transformed, our spirits given life. We can do none of this for ourselves. The change each human needs, regardless of how we may outwardly appear, is so radical, so near our roots, that only God can bring it about. We need God to convert us.
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 99.
G.V. Wigram
The people of God may have to taste a little of the waters of death's dark river, but Christ went to the very bottom of it, and rose again, and is alive for evermore.
G.V. Wigram
Cet Être gouverne toutes choses, non pas comme l'âme du monde, mais comme Seigneur sur tout ; et il a coutume, en raison de sa domination, d'être appelé Seigneur Dieu παντοκρατωρ ou Règle universelle."
Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687
“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.”
Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1867
Tim Keller
God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises 'before the nations.' We are called not simply to communicate the Gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the Gospel before them.
Tim Keller
Tom Wells
The New Covenant is the bond between God and man, established by the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, under which all who have been effectively called to God in all ages have been formed into the one body of Christ in New Testament times, in order to come under His law during this age and to remain under His authority forever.
Tom Wells
Jean Calvin, Institutes.
Now, because no description can deal adequately with the gravity of God’s vengeance against the wicked, their torments and tortures are figuratively expressed to us by physical things, that is, by darkness, weeping, and gnashing of teeth (Mt. 8:12; 22:13), unquenchable fire (Matthew 3:12; Mk. 9:43; Isa. 66:24), an undying worm gnawing at the heart (Isa. 66:24). By such expressions the Holy Spirit certainly intended to confound all our senses with dread.
John Calvin, Institutes.
William Gurnall (1616-1679)
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God’s Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
William Gurnall (1616-1679)
Pamela Christian
Faith is like insurance. It needs to be wholly in place before there's a crisis.
Pamela Christian
Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness, NavPress, 1996, p. 164.
We must take the initiative to restore peace. Jesus taught that it makes no difference whether you have wronged your brother or he has wronged you. Either way, you are always responsible to initiate efforts toward peace (see Matthew 5:23-24 and 18:15). If we are serious about intently pursuing peace, we won’t be concerned about which of us is the offending party. We will have one goal: To restore peace in a godly manner. Unresolved conflict between believers is sin and must be treated as such; otherwise, it will spread throughout the body like cancer until it requires radical spiritual surgery. Far better to deal with it when it is easily contained.
Jerry Bridges, The Practice of Godliness, NavPress, 1996, p. 164.
Richard Owen Roberts, Preaching that Hinders Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 2, n. 2.
Can a self-called man preach with the same authority as a God-called preacher? Can a man whose confidence in the Holy Scriptures is shaken by personal doubts preach with the authority of the man whose whole heart, soul and mind are dominated by conviction concerning the absolute accuracy of the Bible? Can a man whose own conscience rises up in condemnation of him for some secret sin in his life preach with the same authority as the man whose conscience condemns him not (I John 3:21-22)?
Richard Owen Roberts, Preaching that Hinders Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 2, n. 2.
Oscar Romero
The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.
Oscar Romero
Charles Spurgeon
Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.
Charles Spurgeon
Johannes Kepler, Defundamentis Astrologiae Certioribus, Thèse XX (1601)
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
Johannes Kepler, Defundamentis Astrologiae Certioribus, Thesis XX (1601)damentis Astrologiae Certioribus, Thesis XX (1601)
Robert Murray McCheyne
As long as the Spirit dwells in my heart, He deadens me to sin, so that, if lawfully called through temptation, I may reckon upon God carrying me through. But when the Spirit leaves me, I am like dry gunpowder.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Mark Dever, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, Crossway, 2007, p. 112.
The Christian call to evangelism is not simply a call to persuade people to make decisions, but rather to proclaim to them the good news of salvation in Christ, to call them to repentance, and to give God the glory for regeneration and conversion.
Mark Dever, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, Crossway, 2007, p. 112.
Craig Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, 1987, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, p. 77.
No religion stands or falls with a claim about the resurrection of its founder in the way Christianity does.
Craig Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, 1987, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, p. 77.
Billy GRAHAM
La souveraineté est une chose importante à attribuer à la nature et au caractère de Dieu. Pourtant, s'il n'était pas souverain, il ne serait pas Dieu.
La Bible dit clairement que Dieu contrôle tout ce qui se passe."
Joni Eareckson Tada
John Piper
This is God’s universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
John Piper
Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 30.
Temptations are an appeal to meet righteous needs in an unrighteous way.
Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 30.
Warren Wiersbe
You are a Christian because somebody cared. Now it’s your turn.
Warren Wiersbe
John Gresham Machen, God Transcendent, 1949.
No man is interested in a piece of good news unless he has the consciousness of needing it; no man is interested in an offer of salvation unless he knows that there is something from which he needs to be saved. It is quite useless to ask a man to adopt the Christian view of the gospel unless he first has the Christian view of sin.
John Gresham Machen, God Transcendent, 1949.
John Wesley
The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.
John Wesley
ANDREW MURRAY (1828-1917)
PRÉDICATEUR ET AUTEUR EN AFRIQUE DU SUD ET EN ÉCOSSE
The Word of God is true because God himself will make it true in us. You have much to learn, much to overcome, and much to surrender to see that power. But this will come about if you will approach your Bible study determined that God’s Word has omnipotent power to work out every blessing it promises.
ANDREW MURRAY (1828–1917)
PREACHER AND AUTHOR IN SOUTH AFRICA AND SCOTLAND
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 102.
I think the seriousness of evangelism is the main reason it frightens us. We realize that in talking with someone about Christ, Heaven and hell are at stake. The eternal destiny of the person is the issue. And even when we rightly believe that the results of the encounter are in God’s hands and that we are not accountable for the person’s response to the gospel, we still sense a solemn duty to communicate the message faithfully coupled with a holy dread of saying or doing anything that would be a stumbling block to this person’s salvation. Many Christians feel too unprepared for this kind of challenge, or simply have too little faith and are terrified of entering into such an eternally important situation.
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 102.
William Law
When you begin to pray, use such expressions of the attributes of God as will make you sensible of His greatness and power.
William Law
James H. Aughey
God makes crosses of great variety; He makes some of iron and lead, that look as if they must crush; some of straw, that seem so light, and yet are no less difficult to carry; some He makes of precious stones and gold, that dazzle the eye and excite the envy of spectators, but in reality are as well able to crucify as those which are so much dreaded.
James H. Aughey
Philip Yancey
Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.
Philip Yancey