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If traces of Christ’s love-artistry be upon me, may He work on with His divine brush until the complete image be obtained and I be made a perfect copy of Him, my Master.
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If traces of Christ’s love-artistry be upon me, may He work on with His divine brush until the complete image be obtained and I be made a perfect copy of Him, my Master.
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Jean Chrysostome
“Charity is, indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us to God Himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.”
John Chrysostom
John Piper
The Son takes shape in those who abandon themselves to Him. Christ forms Himself in the lives of those who will let go of all the forms of life in which they have shaped on their own. Christ takes shape in a life that is willing to become putty in God’s hands. Christ presses the shape of His own face into the clay of our soul when we cease to be hard and resistant, and when we take our own amateur hands off and admit that we are not such good artists as He is.
John Piper
[Dieu] ne condamne jamais les longues prières qui sont sincères. N'oublions pas que notre Seigneur passait parfois de longues nuits en prière. On nous parle de l'une d'entre elles - nous ne savons pas si elles étaient fréquentes (Luc 6:12). Il se levait parfois "bien avant le jour" et se rendait dans un endroit solitaire pour prier (Marc 1:35). L'Homme parfait passait plus de temps en prière que nous. Il semblerait que ce soit un Il semble que ce soit un fait incontestable que, chez les saints de Dieu, à toutes les époques, les nuits de prière avec Dieu ont été suivies de jours de puissance avec les hommes.
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[God] never condemns long prayers that are sincere. Let us not forget that our Lord sometimes spent long nights in prayer. We are told of one of these – we do not know how frequently they were (Luke 6:12). He would sometimes rise a “great while before day” and depart to a solitary place for prayer (Mark 1:35). The perfect Man spent more time in prayer than we do. It would seem an undoubted fact that with God's saints in all ages nights of prayer with God have been followed by days of power with men.
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Basile
What does the Spirit do? His works are ineffable in majesty, and innumerable in quantity. How can we even ponder what extends beyond the ages? What did He do before creation began? How great are the graces He showered on creation? What power will He wield in the age to come? He existed; He pre-existed; He co-existed with the Father and the Son before the ages. Even if you can imagine anything beyond the ages, you will discover that the Spirit is even further beyond.
Basil
Hannah Whitall Smith
“You have trusted Him in a few things, and He has not failed you. Trust Him now for everything, and see if He does not do for you exceeding abundantly above all that you could ever have asked or thought, not according to your power or capacity, but according to His own mighty power, that will work in you all the good pleasure of His most blessed will. You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?”
Hannah Whitall Smith
William Gurnall
In heaven we shall appear, not in armor, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must talk, work and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
William Gurnall
Alexander Whyte
“You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.”
Alexander Whyte
Matthew Henry
“Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his word, honour our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.”
Matthew Henry
George Whitfield
“Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.”
George Whitfield
C.S. Lewis
“Christ, because He was the only Man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only Man who knows to the full what temptation means.”
C.S. Lewis
John Piper, Desiring God, Bethlehem Baptist Church, 1996, p. 281-281.
“Pride is the presumption that we can be happy without depending on God as the source of our happiness and without caring if others find their happiness in God. Pride is the passion to be happy contaminated and corrupted by two things: 1) the unwillingness to see God as the only fountain of true and lasting joy, and 2) the unwillingness to see other people as designed by God to receive our joy in Him. If you take the desire to be happy and strip away from it God as the fountain of your happiness, and people as the recipients of your happiness, what you have left is pride. Pride is the pursuit of happiness anywhere but in the glory of God and the good of other people.”
John Piper, Desiring God, Bethlehem Baptist Church, 1996, p. 281-281.
Charles Hodge
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
Charles Hodge
Alexander MacLaren
“You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.”
Alexander MacLaren
Pete Scazzero
When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human. We transform slowly into empty shells with smiley faces painted on them. Sad to say, that is the fruit of much of our discipleship in our churches. But when I began to allow myself to feel a wider range of emotions, including sadness, depression, fear, and anger, a revolution in my spirituality was unleashed. I soon realized that a failure to appreciate the biblical place of feelings within our larger Christian lives has done extensive damage, keeping free people in Christ in slavery.
Pete Scazzero
"Mes brebis connaissent ma voix" (Jean 10:4). Les agneaux fidèles de Christ connaissent sa voix parce qu'ils sont habitués au son de celle-ci. Parce qu'ils communient souvent avec lui et ont faim des mots qui tombent de ses lèvres, ils reconnaissent le ton et le rythme de ses précieuses paroles. Ils peuvent dire immédiatement si c'est Lui ou un étranger qui déclare la paix. Ils connaissent Sa voix parce qu'elle parle bien à leurs âmes. Sa parole de paix humilie les âmes, purifie de la culpabilité, transforme les vies, fait fondre les cœurs et rend le Christ attachant.
Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within, 1998, p. 139.
“My sheep know my voice” (John 10:4). Christ’s faithful lambs know His voice because they are used to the sound of it. Because they commune with Him often and hunger for the words that fall from His lips, they recognize the tone and rhythm of His precious words. They can tell at once whether He or a stranger is declaring peace. They know His voice because it speaks good to their souls. His word of peace humbles souls, cleanses from guilt, transforms lives, melts their hearts, and endears Christ to them.
Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within, 1998, p. 139.
James Hufstetler
The fact that God ordained our days for us should also give meaning to every day, not just the special or exciting days of our lives. Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.
James Hufstetler
Sinclair Ferguson, The Christian Life, 1997, p. 21.
How can all things be worked together by God for good? The answer is at hand. It is because God’s ultimate purpose is to make us like Christ. His goal is the complete restoration of the image of God in His child! So great a work demands all the resources which God finds throughout the universe, and He ransacks the possibilities of joys and sorrows in order to reproduce in us the character of Jesus.
Sinclair Ferguson, The Christian Life, 1997, p. 21.