Richard Baxter, Excerpts from The Saints’ Everlasting Rest, a classic work first published in 1650.
This is a life of desire and prayer; but that [heaven] is a life of satisfaction and enjoyment.
Richard Baxter, Excerpts from The Saints’ Everlasting Rest, a classic work first published in 1650.
"Pourquoi la liberté est-elle si importante [aujourd'hui] ? Pourquoi est-ce le 'bien' absolu et incontesté - et qui peut le définir comme tel ? Ne supposez-vous pas une norme chargée de valeurs que vous utilisez pour critiquer toutes les autres approches de la vie ? N'êtes-vous pas, alors, en train de donner une réponse universelle à la question du sens, à savoir que le sens de la vie est d'avoir la liberté de déterminer son propre sens ? Ne faites-vous pas, alors, la chose même que vous dites ne pas devoir faire ?"
Tim Keller, Making Sense of God : An Invitation to the Skeptical
“Why is freedom so important [today]? Why is that the absolute, unquestioned ‘good’—and who gets to define it as such? Are you not assuming a value-laden standard that you are using to critique all other approaches to life? Are you not, then, actually giving a universal answer to the Meaning question, namely, that the meaning of life is to have the freedom to determine your own meaning? Are you not, then, doing the very thing you say should not be done?”
Tim Keller, Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
1. Il montre qu'il tient sa parole.
2. Il montre sa valeur infinie, qui dure pour toujours.
3. Il démontre sa puissance pour soumettre tous ceux qui se rebellent contre lui.
4. Il montre combien il est indiciblement miséricordieux envers ceux qui lui font confiance.
5. Il confirme la réalité de l'amour en rendant justice à ceux qui rejettent Dieu, qui est amour.
6. Elle justifie tous ceux qui ont souffert pour entendre ou proclamer la vérité de la Parole de Dieu. 7.
7. Elle montre l'énormité de ce que Jésus a accompli lorsqu'il est mort pour sauver de l'enfer qu'ils méritaient tous ceux qui lui faisaient confiance. S'il n'y avait pas d'enfer, il n'y aurait pas besoin de la croix.
James M. Hamilton, Comment l'enfer glorifie-t-il Dieu ?
Hell glorifies God because:
1. It shows that He keeps His Word.
2. It shows His infinite worth, lasting forever.
3. It demonstrates His power to subdue all who rebel against Him.
4. It shows how unspeakably merciful He is to those who trust Him.
5. It upholds the reality of love by visiting justice against those who reject God, who is love.
6. It vindicates all who suffered to hear or proclaim the truth of God's Word.
7. It shows the enormity of what Jesus accomplished when He died to save all who would trust Him from the hell they deserved. If there were no hell, there would be no need for the cross.
James M. Hamilton, How Does Hell Glorify God?
Melvin Tinker, Wisdom to Live By, Christian Focus Publications, 1998, p. 180.
[Prayer] is very hard work, why else is the prayer meeting the worst attended meeting in any church? For that is where the battle is.
Melvin Tinker, Wisdom to Live By, Christian Focus Publications, 1998, p. 180.
La joie n'est pas nécessairement l'absence de souffrance, elle est la présence de Dieu.
Sam Storms, Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Knowing God, 2000, p. 60.
Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.
Sam Storms, Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Knowing God, 2000, p. 60.
La vérité ne consiste pas dans l'exactitude minutieuse des détails, mais dans la transmission d'une impression juste ; et il y a des manières vagues de parler qui sont plus vraies que ne le seraient des faits stricts. Lorsque le Psalmiste a dit : "Des rivières d'eau coulent dans mes yeux, parce que les hommes n'observent pas ta loi", il n'a pas énoncé le fait, mais il a énoncé une vérité plus profonde que le fait, et plus vraie.
Henry Alford
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact, but he stated a truth deeper than fact, and truer.
Henry Alford
Il n'y a pas de devoir plus ennuyeux et plus inopportun que celui de louer Dieu et de lui rendre grâces, et il n'y a pas non plus de devoir pour lequel nous ayons plus besoin d'être stimulés.
David Dickson
Unto no duty are we more dull and untoward, than to the praise of God, and thanksgiving unto him; neither is there any duty whereunto there is more need that we should be stirred up.
David Dickson
Scott Hafemann, The God of Promise and the Life of Faith , 2001.
Suffering as a Christian is a sign that God is powerfully at work in our lives. Longing for our final redemption, suffering for doing right, and being persecuted for our faith are all evidence that God has begun the good work of making us like Christ. Our suffering consequently becomes a great encouragement to our faith, since those who share in Christ’s sufferings know that they will also share in his resurrection (Matthew 5:11-12; Rom. 8:17; Phil. 3:10).
Scott Hafemann, The God of Promise and the Life of Faith , 2001.
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BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662) PHILOSOPHE, MATHÉMATICIEN ET PHYSICIEN FRANÇAIS
Christ is the centre of all, and the goal to which all tends.
BLAISE PASCAL (1623–1662) FRENCH PHILOSOPHER, MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICIST
Charles H. Spurgeon
It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Le droit d'entrée au royaume des cieux ne coûte rien : la cotisation annuelle coûte tout.
Henry Drummond
The entrance fee into the kingdom of heaven is nothing: the annual subscription is everything.
Henry Drummond
Watchman Nee
The believer at minimum can declare by his will that he wants the truth, that he wants to know and obey the truth. By prayer and by choice of will he ought to resist every satanic lie, whatever form it may take a thought, an imagination or an argument.
Watchman Nee
John Gerstner, The Problem of Pleasure, Soli Deo Gloria, 2002, p. 20.
God really loves us and wants us to turn away from our sins. If He passed final judgment now, we would have no such opportunity; that would be the end of time for us. He has sufficient provocation to do so; that we recognize. We have sinned enough to deserve His infinite wrath at any moment, but we do not receive it. We have an opportunity, therefore, to turn away from our sin and to turn to God. Instead of continuing to offend Him, we can plead for forgiveness and seek to please Him. While there is yet life, that is possible.
John Gerstner, The Problem of Pleasure, Soli Deo Gloria, 2002, p. 20.
La première chose qui est restée gravée dans l'esprit des disciples n'est pas le tombeau vide, mais plutôt les vêtements vides de la tombe - intacts dans leur forme et leur position.
Josh McDowell
The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
Josh McDowell
J.C. Philpot, What Is It That Saves a Soul ?
Godly sorrow springs from a view of a suffering Savior, and manifests itself by hatred of self, abhorrence of sin, groaning over our backslidings, grief of soul for being so often entangled by our lusts and passions, and is accompanied by softness, meltings of heart, flowings of love to the Redeemer, indignation against ourselves, and earnest desires never to sin more.
J.C. Philpot, What Is It That Saves a Soul?
Charles H. Spurgeon
A man’s life is always more forcible than his speech. When men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as dollars and his words as pennies. If his life and doctrine disagree the mass of onlookers accept his practice and reject his preaching.
Charles H. Spurgeon