Deux mauvaises manières de réagir face à notre péché :
1. "Je suis pardonné, alors ce n'est pas si grave"
2. "Ce que j'ai fait est trop grave, alors je ne peux pas être pardonné"
Matt Smethurst
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1. "Je suis pardonné, alors ce n'est pas si grave"
2. "Ce que j'ai fait est trop grave, alors je ne peux pas être pardonné"
Matt Smethurst
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What’s in the well of the heart comes up in the bucket of the mouth (Luke 6:45).
Unknown Author
Joseph Hall
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.
Joseph Hall
Thomas Carlyle
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle
Burk Parsons
Fuzzy theology is not dogmatic, and it is not established by the unchanging Word of God; rather, it consists of theology formulated by compromise. Fuzzy theology has a fundamental principle: we can believe whatever we want to believe as long as what we believe does not offend anyone, as long as it affirms nice things about Jesus, and as long as it doesn’t divide.
Burk Parsons
William Hendriksen, Romans, Baker Books, 1981, p. 406.
In order to discern the will of God for their lives believers cannot just depend on their conscience. Conscience is indeed very important, but it must constantly be sent back to the school of Scripture to receive instruction from the Holy Spirit. It is in this manner that believers become and remain aware of God’s will. Which will? Decretive (secret) or Preceptive (revealed)? The latter, of course… In this way the will of God will become an increasingly well-established or proven component of the consciousness and lives of God’s children. The more they live in accordance with that will and approve of it, the more also, through this experience, will they learn to know that will, and rejoice in that knowledge. They will exclaim, “Thy will is our delight.”
William Hendriksen, Romans, Baker Books, 1981, p. 406.
Charles Spurgeon
There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keeping God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.
Charles Spurgeon
Jean Calvin
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin
G.K. Beale, Apocalypse, The New International Greek Testament Commentary, Eerdmans, 1999, p. 306.
The church’s spiritual malaise cannot be cured by resort to the resources of idolatrous society on which…Christians have been too dependent, or to their own resources. Their illness can be remedied only by a renewed relationship with Christ.
G.K. Beale, Revelation, The New International Greek Testament Commentary, Eerdmans, 1999, p. 306.
Francis Schaeffer, The New Super-Spirituality, IVP, 1972, p. 24.
We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.
Francis Schaeffer, The New Super-Spirituality, IVP, 1972, p. 24.
. . . La parfaite infaillibilité de la Bible dans toutes ses parties, en tant qu'enregistrement des faits et de la doctrine, tant dans la pensée que dans l'expression verbale. Ainsi, bien qu'elles nous parviennent par l'intermédiaire de l'esprit, du cœur, de l'imagination, de la conscience et de la volonté des hommes, elles sont néanmoins, au sens le plus strict, la parole de Dieu.
A. A. HODGE (1823-1886)
ECCLÉSIASTIQUE ET ÉDUCATEUR PRESBYTÉRIEN AMÉRICAIN
. . . The perfect infallibility of the Scriptures in every part, as a record of fact and doctrine both in thought and in verbal expression. So though they come to us through the instrumentality of minds, hearts, imaginations, consciences and wills of men, they are nevertheless in the strictest sense the word of God.
A. A. HODGE (1823–1886)
AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN CLERGYMAN AND EDUCATOR
La grâce à bon marché, c’est la grâce considérée comme une marchandise à liquider, le pardon au rabais, la consolation au rabais, le sacrement au rabais … ; la grâce non tarifiée, la grâce qui ne coûte rien…
La grâce à bon marché c’est la grâce envisagée en tant que doctrine, en tant que principe, en tant que système ; c’est le pardon des péchés considéré comme une vérité universelle ; c’est l’amour de Dieu pris comme idée chrétienne de Dieu.
L’affirmer, c’est posséder déjà le pardon de ses péchés…
Dans cette Eglise le monde trouve, à bon marché, un voile pour couvrir ses péchés, péchés dont il ne se repent pas et dont, à plus forte raison, il ne désire pas se libérer.
De ce fait la grâce à bon marché est la négation de la Parole vivante de Dieu, la négation de l’incarnation de la Parole de Dieu.
La grâce à bon marché, c’est la justification du péché et non point du pécheur. Puisque la grâce fait tout toute seule, tout n’a qu’à rester comme avant …
Que le chrétien vive donc dans le monde, qu’il soit en toutes choses semblable au monde et qu’il ne s’avise surtout pas de mener sous la grâce une vie différente de celle qu’on mène sous le péché !
La grâce qui coûte, c’est le trésor caché dans le champ : à cause de lui, l’homme va et vend joyeusement tout ce qu’il a… ; c’est la royauté du Christ : à cause d’elle, l’homme s’arrache l’œil qui est pour lui une occasion de chute ; c’est l’appel de Jésus Christ : l’entendant, le disciple abandonne ses filets et suit.
La grâce qui coûte, c’est l’évangile qu’il faut toujours chercher à nouveau ; c’est le don pour lequel il faut prier, c’est la porte à laquelle il faut frapper. Elle coûte parce qu’elle appelle à l’obéissance ; elle est grâce parce qu’elle appelle à l’obéissance à Jésus-Christ …
La grâce coûte cher d’abord parce qu’elle a coûté cher à Dieu, parce qu’elle a coûté à Dieu la vie de son Fils.
Cette Parole nous atteint sous la forme d’un appel miséricordieux à suivre Jésus sur la voie de l’obéissance, elle se présente à l’esprit angoissé et au cœur abattu sous la forme d’une parole de pardon.
La grâce coûte cher parce qu’elle contraint l’homme à se soumettre au joug de l’obéissance à Jésus-Christ. Mais c’est une grâce que Jésus dise : « Mon joug est doux et mon fardeau léger »
Dietriech BONHOEFFER : Le prix de la grâce
Jerry Wragg
The trustworthy leader, then will serve God best by feeding others with God’s food, reproving them with God’s Word, tending them with God’s heart, and disciplining them with God’s grace.
Jerry Wragg
Thomas Merton
Be good; keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Thomas Merton
BILLY GRAHAM (WILLIAM FRANKLIN GRAHAM JR.)
LEADER ET ÉCRIVAIN ÉVANGÉLIQUE AMÉRICAIN
LA PAIX AVEC DIEU, 1953
The fact of Jesus Christ is the eternal message of the Bible. It is the story of life, peace, eternity, and heaven. The Bible has no hidden purpose. It has no need for special interpretation. It has a single, clear, bold message for every living being—the message of Christ and His offer of peace with God.
BILLY GRAHAM (WILLIAM FRANKLIN GRAHAM JR.)
AMERICAN EVANGELICAL LEADER AND WRITER
PEACE WITH GOD, 1953
John Piper
Sin gets its power by persuading me to believe that I will be happier if I follow it. The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier.
John Piper
Jonathan Edwards, Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, 1741. La langue moderne est empruntée à Archie Parrish, The Spirit of Revival, Crossway Books, 2000, p. 71.
The Word of God is the principle means by which other means operate and are made effectual… For all that is visible to the eye is vague and vain without the Word of God to instruct and guide the mind. It is the Word of God that is indeed held forth and applied by example, just as the word of the Lord sounded forth to other towns of Macedonia and Achaia by the example of those who believed in Thessalonica.
Jonathan Edwards, Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, 1741. Modern language courtesy of Archie Parrish, The Spirit of Revival, Crossway Books, 2000, p. 71.
John Piper, Desiring God, 1996, p. 156.
Prayer pursues joy in fellowship with Jesus and in the power to share His life with others. And prayer pursues God’s glory by treating Him as the inexhaustible reservoir of hope and help. In prayer we admit our poverty and God’s prosperity, our bankruptcy and His bounty, our misery and His mercy. Therefore, prayer highly exalts and glorifies God precisely by pursuing everything we long for in Him and not in ourselves.
John Piper, Desiring God, 1996, p. 156.
Randy Smith
As we grow in Christ, we feel more unworthy to be in His presence, at times wanting to run, but more assured of His eternal commitment, His promise to always hold us close to Himself in His arms of love.
Randy Smith
Mark Ross
Where Christ is truly preached, there is the gospel; and where the gospel is truly believed, there is the church.
Mark Ross