Charles Spurgeon
Everything that has moved or shall move in heaven, and earth, and hell, has been, is, and shall be according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God, fulfilling a holy, just, wise and unalterable purpose!
Charles Spurgeon
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Charles Spurgeon
Everything that has moved or shall move in heaven, and earth, and hell, has been, is, and shall be according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God, fulfilling a holy, just, wise and unalterable purpose!
Charles Spurgeon
JAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795)
AUTEUR BRITANNIQUE ET BIOGRAPHE DU DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
It is a strange thing that the Bible is so little read. I am reading it regularly through at present. I dare say there are many people of distinction in London who know nothing about it.
JAMES BOSWELL (1740–1795)
BRITISH AUTHOR AND BIOGRAPHER OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
Etienne Perrot, 1983
Mgr Luigi Giussani
John Stott, The Preacher's Portrait, Eerdmans, 1961, p. 98-99.
Because [prayer for the church] is secret and therefore unrewarded by men, we shall only undertake it if we long for their spiritual welfare more than for their thanks.
John Stott, The Preacher’s Portrait, Eerdmans, 1961, p. 98-99.
William Penn
When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell.
William Penn
John Angell James, Christian Love, 1828.
There is no one gift which offers so strong a temptation both to vanity and to pride – as that of public speaking. If the orator really excels, and is successful, he is the immediate spectator of his success, and has not even to wait until he has finished his discourse; for although the decorum of public worship will not allow of audible tokens of applause, it does of visible ones – the look of interest, the tear of penitence or of sympathy, the smile of joy, the deep impression on the mind, the death-like stillness, cannot be concealed – all seem like a tribute of admiration to the presiding spirit of the scene; and then the compliments which are conveyed to his ear, after all the silent plaudits which have reached his eye – are equally calculated to puff him up with pride. No men are more in danger of this sin than the ministers of the Gospel; none should watch more sleeplessly against it.
John Angell James, Christian Love, 1828.
Inconnu
Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
Unknown author
John Collins
The Gospel gets really more advantage by the holy, humble sufferings of one saint, simply for the Word of righteousness, than by ten thousand arguments used against heretics and false worship.
John Collins
C. S. Lewis
Affliction is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ.
When a man no longer seeks his comfort from any creature, then he first begins to enjoy God perfectly, and he will be well content with whatever befalls him. Then he will neither rejoice over having much, nor grieve over having little, but will commit himself fully and trustfully to God, who is all in all to him.
Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ.
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