Randy Smith
Hell or Heaven? Do we plead for God’s reward as a result of our actions or do we plead for God’s mercy as a result of his actions?
Randy Smith
William Law
Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God; the heaven born new creature will come to life in you, which alone knows and enjoys the things of God, and has his daily food of gladness in that manifold blessed, and blessed, which Christ preached on the mount.
William Law
Charles Spurgeon
"Without Christ there is no hope."
Charles Spurgeon
John Wycliffe
“Let no man think himself to be holy because he is not tempted, for the holiest and highest in life have the most temptations. How much higher the hill is, so much is the wind there greater; so, how much higher the life is, so much the stronger is the temptation of the enemy.”
John Wycliffe
Leonard Ravenhill
“Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.”
Leonard Ravenhill
Charles Spurgeon
“Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.”
Charles Spurgeon
John Piper
“The New Testament warns against gossiping. The Greek word translated “gossip” means whisper or whisperer. In other words, the focus is not on the falsehood of the word but on the fact that it needs to be surreptitious. It is not open and candid and forthright. It has darkness about it. It does not operate in the light of love. It is not aiming at healing. It strokes the ego’s desire to be seen as right without playing by the rules of love.”
John Piper
John Wesley, Covenant of Early Methodist Ministers, 1752.
We will not listen or willingly inquire after ill concerning one another; that, if we do hear any ill of each other, we will not be forward to believe it; that as soon as possible we will communicate what we hear by speaking or writing to the person concerned; that until we have done this, we will not write or speak a syllable of it to any other person; that neither will we mention it, after we have done this, to any other person; that we will not make any exception to any of these rules unless we think ourselves absolutely obligated in conference.
John Wesley, Covenant of Early Methodist Ministers, 1752.
Comprendre quelqu'un d'autre en tant qu'être humain, je pense que c'est ce qui se rapproche le plus d'un véritable pardon.
David Small
To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
David Small
Eric Liddell, "The Disciplines Of The Christian Life".
"If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by someone or something else. The Christian who hasn’t the sense of guidance in his life is missing something vital."
Eric Liddell, 'The Disciplines Of The Christian Life'.
"Le philosophe russe Vladimir Solovyov a résumé de manière sarcastique le raisonnement éthique de l'humanisme laïque comme suit : 'L'homme descend du singe, donc nous devons nous aimer les uns les autres'. La deuxième clause ne découle pas de la première. S'il était naturel pour les forts de manger les faibles dans le passé, pourquoi les gens ne sont-ils pas autorisés à le faire maintenant ? . . . Étant donné la vision séculaire de l'univers, la conclusion de l'amour ou de la justice sociale n'est pas plus logique que la conclusion de la haine ou de la destruction. Ces deux ensembles de croyances - un matérialisme scientifique approfondi et un humanisme libéral - ne sont tout simplement pas compatibles l'un avec l'autre. Chaque ensemble de croyances est une preuve contre l'autre. Beaucoup appelleraient cela une vision du monde profondément incohérente."
Tim Keller, Making Sense of God : An Invitation to the Skeptical
“Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov sarcastically summarized the ethical reasoning of secular humanism like this: ‘Man descended from apes, therefore we must love one another.’ The second clause does not follow from the first. If it was natural for the strong to eat the weak in the past, why aren’t people allowed to do it now? . . . Given the secular view of the universe, the conclusion of love or social justice is no more logical than the conclusion to hate or destroy. These two sets of beliefs—in a thoroughgoing scientific materialism and in a liberal humanism—simply do not fit with one another. Each set of beliefs is evidence against the other. Many would call this a deeply incoherent view of the world.”
Tim Keller, Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
Auteur inconnu, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 3.
For if men will not believe, and act upon, our Lord’s promises and commands [regarding prayer], how can we expect them to be persuaded by any mere human exhortations [to pray]?
Unknown Author, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 3.
"Tant que vous ne commencez pas avec un parti pris philosophique imposé contre la possibilité des miracles, la Résurrection a autant d'attestation que n'importe quel autre événement historique ancien."
Tim Keller, Making Sense of God : An Invitation to the Skeptical
“As long as you do not begin with an imposed philosophical bias against the possibility of miracles, the Resurrection has as much attestation as any other ancient historical event.”
Tim Keller, Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
"Par la foi en la croix, nous obtenons une nouvelle fondation pour une identité qui, à la fois, nous humilie hors de notre égoïsme, mais qui est si infailliblement sûre dans l'amour que nous sommes capables d'embrasser plutôt que d'exclure ceux qui sont différents."
Tim Keller, Making Sense of God : An Invitation to the Skeptical
“Through faith in the cross we get a new foundation for an identity that both humbles us out of our egoism yet is so infallibly secure in love that we are enabled to embrace rather than exclude those who are different.”
Tim Keller, Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
Auteur inconnu, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 10.
Men of power are without exception men of prayer. God bestows His Holy Spirit in His fullness only on men of prayer. And it is through the operation of the Spirit that answers to prayer come.
Unknown Author, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 10.
"Aussi vilaine que soit l'argent, il peut être transformé en un trésor éternel. Il peut être converti en nourriture pour les affamés et en vêtements pour les pauvres. Il peut permettre à un missionnaire de gagner activement des hommes perdus à la lumière de l'Évangile et se transformer ainsi en valeurs célestes. Toute possession temporelle peut être transformée en richesse éternelle. Tout ce qui est donné au Christ est immédiatement touché par l'immortalité."
A.W. Tozer
“As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.”
A.W. Tozer
E.M. Bounds
The church is not a democracy in which we have chosen God, but a theocracy in which He has chosen us. The church is the only society in the world that never loses any of its members, even by death. The church upon its knees would bring heaven upon the earth.
E.M. Bounds