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Prayer is more than something we do it is something that God does through us.
Unknown Author
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Prayer is more than something we do it is something that God does through us.
Unknown Author
Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within, 1998, p. 48.
The flesh hates everything about God. Since it resists everything about God, it resists every way we try to taste Him and know Him and love Him. And the more something enables us to find God and feast on Him, the more violently the flesh fights against it. It takes its battle to every quarter of the soul: When the mind wants to know God, the flesh imposes ignorance, darkness, error and trivial thoughts. The will can’t move toward God without feeling the weight of stubbornness holding it back. And the affections, longing to long for God, are constantly fighting the infection of sensuality or the disease of indifference.
Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within, 1998, p. 48.
Sam Storms, Pleasures Evermore : The Life-Changing Power of Knowing God, 2000, p. 251-252.
The strength of temptation also comes from a tendency to push virtues to such an extreme that they become vices. For example, it is all too easy for the joy of eating to become gluttony, or for the blessing of rest to become sloth, or for the peace of quietness to become noncommunication, or for industriousness to become greed, or for liberty to be turned into an excuse for licentiousness. We all know what it’s like for pleasure to become sensuality, or for self-care to become selfishness, or for self-respect to become conceit, or for wise caution to become cynicism and unbelief, or for righteous anger to become unrighteous rage, or for the joy of sex to become immorality, or for conscientiousness to become perfectionism. The list could go on endlessly, but I think you get the point.
Sam Storms, Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Knowing God, 2000, p. 251-252.
Priez toujours pour avoir des yeux qui voient le meilleur des gens, un cœur qui pardonne le pire, un esprit qui oublie le mauvais et une âme qui ne perd jamais la foi en Dieu.
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Always pray to have eyes that see the best in people, a heart that forgives the worst, a mind that forgets the bad, and a soul that never loses faith in God.
Unknown author
Philip Graham Ryken, Your Will Be Done from When You Pray, 2000, page 94.
We need to learn how wrong it is to think of prayer as a way of getting something from God. People often think of prayer as a way of talking God into doing what they want Him to do. This is what lies behind “name it and claim it” Christianity, the idea that I can influence God by offering the right kind of prayer. But that attitude ultimately leads to hell. As C. S. Lewis once observed, “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it.” Besides, why would anyone want to change God’s mind? The Bible says that His will is “good, pleasing and perfect” (Romans 12:2). Imagine what a mess our lives would be in if God always did what we wanted Him to do! For unlike God’s will, our own wills are evil, displeasing, and imperfect.
Philip Graham Ryken, Your Will Be Done from When You Pray, 2000, page 94.
John Flavel
You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).
John Flavel
La prière qu'il a priée pour nous se terminait sur cette note : « Père, je désire qu'eux aussi, ceux que tu m'as donnés, soient avec moi là où je suis, pour voir ma gloire » ( Jean 17.24 ).
La gloire qu'il veut que nous voyions est la « richesse insondable du Christ ». C'est « les richesses incommensurables de la grâce de Dieu en bonté envers nous en Jésus-Christ » ( Éphésiens 2.7 ).
Les superlatifs « insondable » et « incommensurable » signifient qu'il n'y aura pas de fin à notre découverte et à notre plaisir.
Il n'y aura pas d'ennui. Chaque jour apportera des choses nouvelles et étonnantes au sujet de Christ qui feront que les merveilles d'hier seront vues sous un jour nouveau, de sorte que non seulement il y aura de nouveaux spectacles de gloire chaque jour, mais la gloire accumulée deviendra plus glorieuse avec chaque nouvelle révélation.
L'évangile est la bonne nouvelle que la joie éternelle et toujours croissante du Christ jamais ennuyeux et toujours satisfaisant est nôtre librement et éternellement par la foi en la mort qui pardonne les péchés et la résurrection de Jésus-Christ qui donne l'espérance.
Que Dieu vous donne « la force de comprendre avec tous les saints quelle est la largeur, la longueur, la hauteur et la profondeur, et de connaître l'amour de Christ qui surpasse toute connaissance » ( Éphésiens 3.18-19 ).
John Piper
J. Sidlow Baxter
No man who is full of himself can ever truly preach the Christ who emptied Himself.
J. Sidlow Baxter
ROLLO MAY (1909-1994)
PSYCHOLOGUE EXISTENTIALISTE AMÉRICAIN
Christ is the therapist for all humanity.
ROLLO MAY (1909–1994)
AMERICAN EXISTENTIALIST PSYCHOLOGIST
Jim Elliff
Though some situations which invite temptation cannot be changed, most can. A man who will not flee the setting of his temptation when he is able still loves his sin.
Jim Elliff
Colin Kruse, Paul's Letter to the Romans, Eerdmans, p. 141.
Seeing that all of human nature has been affected by sin, both a person’s perception of the standard of action required and the function of the conscience itself (as a constituent part of human nature) are also affected by sin. For this reason conscience can never be accorded the position of ultimate judge of one’s behavior. It is possible that the conscience may excuse one for that which God will not excuse, and conversely it is equally possible that conscience may condemn a person for that which God allows. The final judgment therefore belongs only to God (cf. 1 Cor. 4:2-5). Nevertheless, to reject the voice of conscience is to court spiritual disaster (cf. 1 Tim. 1:19). We cannot reject the voice of conscience with impunity, but we can modify the highest standard to which it relates by gaining for ourselves a greater understanding of the truth.
Colin Kruse, Paul’s Letter to the Romans, Eerdmans, p. 141.
John MacArthur, The Battle for the Beginning, 2001, p. 29.
Everything Scripture teaches about sin and redemption assumes the literal truth of the first three chapters of Genesis. If we wobble to any degree on the truth of this passage, we undermine the very foundations of our faith.
John MacArthur, The Battle for the Beginning, 2001, p. 29.
Dans l'ombre de ma blessure, le pardon ressemble à une décision de récompenser mon ennemi. Mais à l'ombre de la croix, le pardon est simplement un cadeau d'une âme non méritante à une autre.
Andy Stanley, It Came from Within!
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
Andy Stanley, It Came from Within!
Joni Eareckson Tada, Heaven : Your Real Home, Zondervan, 1995, p. 49.
Heavenly fellowship with friends won’t be some ethereal do-nothingness where we yawn, sit around on clouds, and ogle at angels. Because heaven is the home of redeemed humans, it will be thoroughly “human” in it structure and activities.
Joni Eareckson Tada, Heaven: Your Real Home, Zondervan, 1995, p. 49.
John Piper
JOHN MACARTHUR, TRUTH FOR TODAY, 2001
Christ is the focus of the entire Bible, and you need to study it to know what He is like. Too often we study the Bible for the sake of theological arguments or to answer questions. Those things are important, but the main point of Bible study is to know more about Christ so that you can be like him.
JOHN MACARTHUR, TRUTH FOR TODAY, 2001
Alistair Begg, Made For His Pleasure, Moody Press, 1996, p. 36-37.
[We must have] the ability to distinguish issues that truly matter from ones that do not. We do not want to be flexible about moral and theological convictions (the great doctrines of the church). But it is also wrong to be brittle about issues that are not foundational to our faith.
Alistair Begg, Made For His Pleasure, Moody Press, 1996, p. 36-37.