Erasme
On these pages (of the Bible), you will find the living Christ, and you will see Him more fully and more clearly than if He stood before you, before your very eyes.
Erasmus
- Dieu nous l’a manifesté. Il a voulu que chacun puisse avoir une connaissance de Lui-même, immédiate. Le premier témoignage qu’il a donné est le monde qui nous entoure. Depuis le début de l’humanité, chacun est ainsi interpellé par les merveilles de la nature créée.
- Ce qu’il y a d’invisible en Dieu, sa puissance éternelle et sa divinité : Sa puissance ne se voit pas, elle est comme cachée au-delà de la matière et du temps. Rien n’est visible de la divinité du Créateur, il est totalement au-dessus de nous. Nous ne voyons pas ses caractères, et pourtant Dieu nous a donné la capacité de les percevoir.
- Ils se discernent au moyen de l’intelligence, d’après les choses créées. Même un enfant demande qui a fait le monde. C’est un point incontournable de notre pensée. Ce qui existe provient de quelque chose, rien ne se fait tout seul. Ainsi, par la réflexion, je peux penser à la puissance de Dieu, à son éternité.
- Les hommes sont inexcusables. Étant donné cette conscience innée de Dieu, chacun est inexcusable de ne pas le rechercher, l’honorer et le remercier. Les hommes ont pourtant changé cette pensée première de Dieu en toutes sortes de représentations. Par exemple l’homme moderne ramène pour ainsi dire Dieu à la matière et à l’énergie. Mais Dieu continue de nous parler par la nature et de tant de manières ! »
La Confession de Westminster
God freely justifies the persons whom he effectually calls. He does this, not by infusing righteousness into them but by pardoning their sins and by accounting them, and accepting them as righteous. This He does for Christ’s sake alone and not for anything wrought in them or done by them. The righteousness which is imputed to them, that is, reckoned to their account, is neither their faith nor the act of believing nor any obedience to the gospel which they have rendered, but Christ’s obedience alone. Christ’s one obedience is twofold – His active obedience rendered to the entire divine law, and His passive obedience rendered in his death.
The Westminster Confession
Curtis Thomas, Practical Wisdom for Pastors, Crossway Books, 2001, p. 131.
Satan is happy when problems occur in the body of Christ. He loves divisions, dissensions, uproars, individual against individual, falsehood against truth, lies, distortions, and other things that upset the tranquility and mission of the church. And one of his insidious ways of fostering these problems is to cause the leadership to assume that we just need to give the matter a bit of time to see if it won’t work itself out. Seldom is that the case! Some very minor issues, are best left alone, but when they escalate to major issues, time will work against us rather than for us. We must not fall into Satan’s trap. He is for real!
Curtis Thomas, Practical Wisdom for Pastors, Crossway Books, 2001, p. 131.
La transfiguration de Jésus est l'un des faits typiques de la résurrection du corps ; non seulement du changement glorieux, mais de la vie renouvelée du corps et du jour du jugement général.
Edward McKendree Bounds
The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the typical facts of the resurrection of the body; not only of the glorious change, but of the renewed life of the body and of the general judgment day.
Edward McKendree Bounds
John Hooper
I do believe and confess that Christ’s condemnation is my absolution, that His crucifying is my deliverance, His descending into hell is my ascending into heaven, His death is my life, His blood is my cleansing and purging, by whom only I am washed, purified and cleansed from all my sins, so that I neither receive nor believe any other purgatory, either in this world or in the other, whereby I am purged, but only the blood of Jesus Christ, by which all are purged and made clean forever.
John Hooper
Peut-être faut-il une foi plus pure pour louer Dieu pour des bénédictions non réalisées que pour celles dont nous avons joui autrefois ou celles dont nous jouissons maintenant.
A.W. Tozer
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
A.W. Tozer
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armor.
[Fear] is Satan’s weapon held in reserve. When alluring temptations fail, he opens his quiver and shoots these arrows to set the soul on fire, if not with sin then with terror. When he cannot carry a soul laughing to hell through the deception of pleasurable temptations, he will try to make him go mourning to heaven by this amazing attack. It is a sure sign that Satan is losing. The arrows he shot at Job were of this kind. When God let the devil practice his skill, why did Satan not tempt Job with some golden apple of profit or pleasure or some other enticement? Surely the high testimony God gave about Job discouraged him from these methods. Satan had no tactic left but this.
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armor.
Adrian Rogers wrote : « Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need. »
Roy Hession, The Calvary Road, 1950, p. 82.
When we in turn are challenged, let us not defend ourselves and explain ourselves. Let us take it in silence, thanking the other; and then go to God about it and ask Him. If he was right, let us be humble enough to go and tell him, and praise God together.
Roy Hession, The Calvary Road, 1950, p. 82.
Jim Elliff
By meditating on Scripture you are transformed into the person God intends you to be. Meditation is a blend of your words to God and His Word to you; it is loving conversation between you and God through the pages of His Word. It is absorption of His words into your mind by prayerful contemplation and concentration.
Jim Elliff
Si vous êtes vraiment né de nouveau, vous avez une nature nouvelle et sainte, et vous n'êtes plus porté vers les objets pécheurs comme vous l'étiez auparavant. Les choses que vous aimiez autrefois, vous les détestez maintenant, et c'est pourquoi vous ne courrez pas après elles. Vous pouvez difficilement le comprendre, mais il en est ainsi, vos pensées et vos goûts sont radicalement changés. Vous aspirez à cette sainteté dont vous étiez autrefois irrité d'entendre parler, et vous détestez ces vaines occupations qui étaient autrefois vos délices. L'homme qui met sa confiance dans le Seigneur voit les plaisirs du péché sous un jour nouveau. En effet, il voit le mal qui les suit en constatant les agonies qu'ils ont fait subir à notre Seigneur lorsqu'il a porté nos péchés dans son propre corps sur le bois. Sans foi, l'homme se dit : "Ce péché est une chose très agréable, pourquoi n'en profiterais-je pas ? Je peux certainement manger ce fruit, qui a l'air si charmant et qui est si désiré." La chair voit du miel dans la boisson, mais la foi perçoit aussitôt qu'il y a du poison dans la coupe. La foi aperçoit le serpent dans l'herbe et le met en garde. La foi se souvient de la mort, du jugement, de la grande récompense, de la juste punition et de ce mot redoutable, l'éternité.
Charles H. Spurgeon
If you have been truly born again you have a new and holy nature, and you are no longer moved towards sinful objects as you were before. The things that you once loved you now hate, and therefore you will not run after them. You can hardly understand it but so it is, that your thoughts and tastes are radically changed. You long for that very holiness which once it was irksome to hear of; and you loathe those vain pursuits which were once your delights. The man who puts his trust in the Lord sees the pleasures of sin in a new light. For he sees the evil which follows them by noting the agonies which they brought upon our Lord when He bore our sins in His own body on the tree. Without faith a man says to himself, “This sin is a very pleasant thing, why should I not enjoy it? Surely I may eat this fruit, which looks so charming and is so much to be desired.” The flesh sees honey in the drink, but faith at once perceives that there is poison in the cup. Faith spies the snake in the grass and gives warning of it. Faith remembers death, judgment, the great reward, the just punishment and that dread word, eternity.
Charles H. Spurgeon
A.A. Hodge
Nothing in the world so tends to defile the imagination, to pervert the affections, and to corrupt the morals, as self-consciousness. You know it is connected with every disease and morbid action of the body. …All self-consciousness is of the very essence and nature of sin.
A.A. Hodge
John Piper
- d’une part, par la Bible, ce livre qu’il a fait écrire par différents hommes, inspirés par son Esprit.
- d’autre part, par son propre Fils, qui est venu dans notre condition pour nous le faire connaître.
Soyons clairs : un Dieu sans Jésus ne peut en aucun cas être le Dieu des chrétiens. Par la foi en son sacrifice, ils ont la certitude du pardon de leurs péchés et de la vie éternelle, et par lui ils connaissent Dieu comme leur Père. “Dieu a tant aimé le monde qu’il a donné son Fils unique, afin que quiconque croit en lui ne périsse pas, mais qu’il ait la vie éternelle” (Jean 3. 16). “Et la vie éternelle, c’est qu’ils te connaissent, toi le seul vrai Dieu, et celui que tu as envoyé, Jésus Christ” (Jean 17. 3). »
Auteur inconnu
Jurgen Moltmann
Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.
Jurgen Moltmann
Michael Dalton
Fear will stop talking when praise becomes your response.
Michael Dalton
