Brooke Foss Westcott
The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.
Brooke Foss Westcott
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Brooke Foss Westcott
The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.
Brooke Foss Westcott
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Depend upon it, your dying hour will be the best hour you have ever known! Your last moment will be your richest moment, better than the day of your birth will be the day of your death. It shall be the beginning of heaven, the rising of a sun that shall go no more down forever!”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Tom Wells, Chrétien : Take Heart !, 1987, p. 61.
[God] is not at a loss when He moves to bring us back to Himself. He can woo or whip. He can draw or drive. He can work rapidly or slowly, as He pleases. In other words, He is free to be God! And in His own way, at His own pace, He brings us back.
Tom Wells, Christian: Take Heart!, 1987, p. 61.
Trop souvent, ce que nous appelons des convictions sont en fait des préférences. Les vraies convictions sont fondées sur la vérité révélée (c'est-à-dire la Bible). Les préférences sont fondées sur le désir personnel. Les convictions sont constantes ; les préférences changent avec le désir. Les convictions exigent la foi ; les préférences reposent sur les émotions du moment.
Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity, 1997, p. 131-132,
Too often, what we call convictions are actually preferences. Real convictions are based on revealed truth (that is, Scripture). Preferences are based on personal desire. Convictions are constant; preferences change with desire. Convictions demand faith; preferences rely on the emotions of the moment.
Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity, 1997, p. 131-132,
Charles H. Spurgeon
Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Donald Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
I still maintain that much of Scripture is plain and straightforward in its meaning. Our problem continues to be more of a lack of action than comprehension. The words of Scripture must be understood to be applied, but until we apply them, we don’t really understand them.
Donald Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
Jamais auparavant le monde n'a demandé aussi désespérément des réponses à des questions cruciales, et jamais auparavant le monde ne s'est engagé aussi frénétiquement dans l'idée qu'aucune réponse n'est possible.
Edmond Clowney
Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.
Edmond Clowney
Sam Storms, One Thing, 2004, p.60.
There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.
Sam Storms, One Thing, 2004, p.60.
Philip Graham Ryken
Are you a hypocrite? One way to tell is to compare the amount of time you spend in private prayer to the amount of time you spend in public prayer. As D. A. Carson rightly observes, “The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.”
Philip Graham Ryken
J.C. Ryle
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.
J.C. Ryle
Auteur inconnu
Fly from all occasions of temptation, and if still tempted, fly further still. If there is no escape possible, then have done with running away and show a bold face and take the two-edged sword of the Spirit. Some temptations must be taken by the throat as David killed the lion; others must be stifled as David hugged the bear to death. Some you had better keep to yourselves and not give air. Shut them up as a scorpion in a bottle. Scorpions in such confinement die soon, but if allowed out for a crawl and then put back into the bottle and corked down, they will live a long while and
give you trouble. Keep the cork on your temptations, and they will die of themselves.
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Thomas Watson
The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
Thomas Watson
Jonathan Edwards
In efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God produces all, we act all. For that is what produces, viz. our own acts. God is the only proper author and fountain; we only are the proper actors. We are in different respects, wholly passive and wholly active.
Jonathan Edwards
John H. Gerstner, Theology for Everyman
The significant thing is this: not one recognized religious leader in the history of the world has ever laid claim to being God – except Jesus. Moses did not. Paul was horrified when people tried to worship him. Muhammad insisted that he was merely a prophet of Allah. Buddha did not even believe in the existence of a personal God, and Confucius was skeptical. Zoroaster was a worshiper, but he was not worshiped. We repeat – of the recognized religious leaders of all time, Jesus of Nazareth – and Jesus of Nazareth alone – claimed to be eternal God.
John H. Gerstner, Theology for Everyman
A. B. Simpson
“We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.”
A. B. Simpson
William Plumer
We never see sin aright until we see it as against God… All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught… Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, “I have sinned”; but the returning prodigal said, “I have sinned against heaven and before Thee”; and David said, “Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.”
William Plumer
Auteur inconnu
Man, it’s great to be in the thick of the fight, to draw the old Devil’s heaviest guns, to have him at you with depression and discouragement, slander, disease! He doesn’t waste time. He hits good and hard when a fellow is hitting him. You can always measure the weight of your blow by the one you get back. When you’re on your back with fever and at your last ounce of strength, when some of your converts backslide, when you learn that your most promising inquirers are only fooling, when your mail gets held up and some don’t bother to answer your letters, is that the time to put on your mourning suit? No Sir! That's the time to pull out the stops and shout hallelujah! The old fellow’s getting it in the neck and he’s giving it back. And all of heaven is watching over the battlements: “Will he stick it out?” And as they see who is with us, as they see around us the unlimited reserves, the boundless resources, as they see the impossibility of failure with God, how disgusted and sad they must be when we run away. Glory to God! We're not going to run away. We're going to stand.
Unknown Author
David Garland
The danger is that worship becomes simply a performance, an exhibition that focuses on us instead of God. It may give people the false impression that the chief purpose of God is to glorify humans rather than vice versa.
David Garland