Être semblable au Christ, c'est être chrétien.
WILLIAM PENN (1644-1718)
QUAKER ANGLAIS ET FONDATEUR DE LA PENNSYLVANIE
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
WILLIAM PENN (1644–1718)
ENGLISH QUAKER AND FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA
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WILLIAM PENN (1644-1718)
QUAKER ANGLAIS ET FONDATEUR DE LA PENNSYLVANIE
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
WILLIAM PENN (1644–1718)
ENGLISH QUAKER AND FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA
John Owen, Meditation on the Glory of Christ, 1684, ch. 2.
Thoughts of the glory of Christ are too high and too hard for us. We cannot delight in them for very long without becoming weary and turning away from them. We are unspiritual, our thoughts and desires being taken up with other things. If we would stir ourselves to believe “the things the angels desire to look into”, our spiritual understanding and strength would increase daily. We would then show more of the glory of Christ by the way we live and death itself would be welcome to us!
John Owen, Meditation on the Glory of Christ, 1684, ch. 2.
Leonard Ravenhill
The church used to be a lightning bolt, now it’s a cruise ship. We are not marching to Zion – we are sailing there with ease. In the apostolic church it says they were all amazed – and now in our churches everybody wants to be amused. The church began in the upper room with a bunch of men agonizing, and it’s ending in the supper room with a bunch of people organizing. We mistake rattle for revival, and commotion for creation, and action for unction.
Leonard Ravenhill
Samuel Johnson
Of all that have tried the selfish experiment, let one come forth and say he has succeeded. He that has made gold his idol, has it satisfied him? He that has toiled in the field of ambition, has he been repaid? He that has ransacked every theater of sensual enjoyment, is he content? Can any answer in the affirmative? Not one!
Samuel Johnson
Jonathan Edwards
As grace is first from God, so it is continually from him, as much as light is all day long from the sun, as well as at first dawn or at sun-rising.
Jonathan Edwards
Dwight L. Moody
If we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God, and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.
Dwight L. Moody
Jerry White, Dangers Men Face, 1997, p. 80.
What is temptation? Some synonyms for “tempt” are: allure, attract, entice, seduce, and tantalize. Some synonyms for “tempted” are: enchanted, entranced, bewitched, hypnotized, spellbound, charmed, mesmerized, enraptured, and captivated. Each word generates an emotional picture. Temptation relates to sin. [We] are allured by it. We are attracted to it, enticed by it, seduced by its seeming pleasure, tantalized by the fantasy of what it would be like.
Jerry White, Dangers Men Face, 1997, p. 80.
H. WHEELER ROBINSON (1872-1945)
DIRECTEUR, REGENT'S PARK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITÉ D'OXFORD
L'EXPÉRIENCE CHRÉTIENNE DU SAINT ESPRIT, 1928
Our modern interest in the history of the human life of Jesus has brought great and permanent gains to our knowledge of Him, but there are definite limits to the value of that knowledge for the Christian faith. . . . The centre of gravity of the New Testament is not on earth but in heaven.
H. WHEELER ROBINSON (1872–1945)
PRINCIPAL, REGENT’S PARK COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY
THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, 1928
A.W. Tozer
Those who have been spiritually enabled to love God for Himself will find a thousand fountains springing up from the rainbow circled throne and bringing countless treasures which are to be received with reverent thanksgiving as being the overflow of God's love for His children. Each gift is a bonus of grace which because it was not sought for itself may be enjoyed without injury to the soul. These include the simple blessings of life, such as health, a home, a family, congenial friends, food, shelter, the pure joys of nature or the more artificial pleasures of music and art.
A.W. Tozer
Auteur inconnu, The Kneeling Christian, vers 1930, ch. 5.
It is good to be conscious that we are always in the presence of God. It is better to gaze upon Him in adoration. But it is best of all to commune with Him as a Friend – and that is prayer.
Unknown Author, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 5.
Sam Storms
The intermediate state for the Christian is immediate transition upon death into the presence of Christ during which time we experience holiness (no longer being at war with the flesh, although final glorification awaits the resurrection), happiness, a heightened sense of consciousness, and knowledge of Christ in its fullest. For the non-Christians a heightened sense of consciousness, but one of torment, agony, irreversible separation from Christ (Luke 16).
Sam Storms
Henry Drummond
Life depends upon contact with Life. It cannot spring up out of itself. It cannot develop out of anything that is not Life. There is no Spontaneous Generation in religion any more than in Nature. Christ is the source of Life in the Spiritual World; and he that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, whatever else he may have, hath not Life.
Henry Drummond
John F. Walvoord
No one else has ever come from infinite heights of glory to such a shameful death. If there had been a better way or another way by which the sin of the whole world could have been taken away, surely God would not have required His beloved Son to submit to such a death.
John F. Walvoord
A.W. Tozer
It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!
A.W. Tozer
John Piper, Desiring God, 1996, p. 256.
Since God made man like Himself, man’s dominion over the world and his filling the world is a display-an imaging forth-of God. God’s aim, therefore, was that man would so act that he mirror forth God, who has ultimate dominion. Man is given the exalted status of image-bearer not so he would become arrogant and autonomous (as he tried to do in the fall), but so he would reflect the glory of His Maker whose image he bears. God’s purpose in creation, therefore, was to fill the earth with his own glory. This is made clear, for example, in Numbers 14:21, where the Lord says, “All the earth shall be full of the glory of the Lord,” and in Isaiah 43:7, where the Lord refers to his people as those “whom I created for my glory.”
John Piper, Desiring God, 1996, p. 256.
Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus through the centuries
Auteur inconnu
Watchman Nee
In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.
Watchman Nee