Charles Wesley
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence, is the sum of a Christian man.
Charles Wesley
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Charles Wesley
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence, is the sum of a Christian man.
Charles Wesley
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, chapitre 3, section 1.
When your minds are in a holy, heavenly frame, your people are likely to partake of the fruits of it. Your prayers, and praises, and doctrine will be sweet and heavenly to them. They will likely feel when you have been much with God: that which is most on your hearts, is like to be most in their ears.
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, Chapter 3, Section 1.
Ray Stedman
The flesh is the old life, the natural life inherited from Adam, with its apparent resources of personality, of ancestry, of commitment, of dedication, and so forth. You can do all kinds of religious things in the flesh. The flesh can preach a sermon. The flesh can sing in the choir. The flesh can act as an usher. The flesh can lead people to Christ. Did you know that? The flesh can go out and be very zealous in its witnessing and amass a terribly impressive list of people won to Christ, scalps to hang on a belt. The flesh can do these things but it is absolutely nauseating in the eyes of God. It is merely religious activity. There is nothing wrong with what is being done, but what is terribly wrong is the power being relied upon to do it.
Ray Stedman
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 191.
A church in which there is expositional preaching will be a church that is encouraging Christian growth – as we listen to God speaking from His Word into our lives. God’s Word is what we need if we are to grow. But we won’t learn that basic fact by looking to the culture around us to tell us what we most need. We can’t even look into our own hearts for such knowledge.
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 191.
C.S. Lewis, The Efficacy of Prayer.
Even if all the things that people prayed for happened – which they do not – this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic – a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature.
C.S. Lewis, The Efficacy of Prayer.
John MacArthur, Matthieu 16-23, Moody, 1988, p. 307.
The history of persecution of God’s people shows that the chief persecutor has been false religion. It is the purveyors of error who are the aggressive enemies of truth, and it is therefore inevitable that, as God’s Word predicts, the final world system of the antichrist will be religious, not secular.
John MacArthur, Matthew 16-23, Moody, 1988, p. 307.
Robert Mounce, Apocalypse, Eerdmans, 1977, p. 120.
The hour of trial [in Revelation 3:10] is directed toward the entire non-Christian world, but the believer will be kept from it, not by some previous appearance of Christ to remove the church bodily from the world, but by the spiritual protection He provides against the forces of evil.
Robert Mounce, Revelation, Eerdmans, 1977, p. 120.
Jean Calvin
It is entirely by the intervention of Christ’s righteousness that we obtain justification before God. This is equivalent to saying that man is not just in himself, but that the righteousness of Christ is communicated to him by imputation, while he is strictly deserving of punishment.
John Calvin
Seulement si Jésus est ressuscité, quelque chose de véritablement nouveau s’est produit qui change le monde et la situation de l’homme. Lui, Jésus, devient alors le critère, sur lequel nous pouvons nous appuyer. Car Dieu s’est alors vraiment manifesté.
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Nous ne sommes pas sauvés par des sentiments de tristesse face à la mort de Jésus. Nous sommes sauvés lorsque la Parole de Dieu "transperce" notre cœur (Hébreux 4:12), lorsque nous sommes convaincus de nos péchés et que nous faisons confiance au Christ par la foi.
R. L. Hymers Jr.
We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.
R. L. Hymers Jr.
J.C. Ryle
It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.
J.C. Ryle
Charles H. Spurgeon
Though infinitely better able to do without prayer than we are, yet [Christ] prayed much more than we do.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Vavasor Powell
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
Vavasor Powell
John Owen
Think of the guilt of sin, that you may be humbled. Think of the power of sin, that you may seek strength against it. Think not of the matter of sin…lest you be more and more entangled.
John Owen