L'espoir de mourir est la seule chose qui me maintient en vie.
Vance Havner
The hope of dying is the only thing that keeps me alive.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
The hope of dying is the only thing that keeps me alive.
Vance Havner
John Newton, Lettres
You know the common expression, “A jack of all trades.” I am sure a minister had need be such a one: a brave soldier, an alert watchman, a caring shepherd, a hardworking farmer, a skillful builder, a wise counselor, a competent physician and a loving nurse.
John Newton, Letters
ST. BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX (1091-1153)
MOINE FRANÇAIS ET FONDATEUR DE L'ORDRE CISTERCIEN
SERMON SUR LE CHANT DES CHANTS
When has so sudden and so bright a light of faith been kindled in the world, as by the preaching of the Name of Jesus?
ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1091–1153)
FRENCH MONK AND FOUNDER OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER
SERMON ON THE SONG OF SONGS
JOHN R. W. STOTT
RECTEUR EMERITUS DE L'ÉGLISE ALL SOULS, LONDRES
LES BASES DU CHRISTIANISME, 1991
Have we opened our door to Christ? Have we ever invited him in? That was exactly the question I needed to have put to me. For, intellectually speaking, I had believed in Jesus all my life, on the other side of the door. . . . But all the time, often without realizing it, I was holding Christ at arm’s length and keeping
him outside. I knew that to open the door might have momentous consequences.
JOHN R. W. STOTT
RECTOR EMERITUS OF ALL SOULS CHURCH, LONDON
CHRISTIAN BASICS, 1991
Jerry Wragg
Criticism should be viewed as a tool for growth and change. Several temptations arise when we experience criticism. 1. We fear the loss of respect; 2. We look for reasons to challenge the data; 3. We search for flaws in the process; 4. We point out weakness in the other person; 5. We demand credit for our strengths; 6. We play the martyr, reeling under the unjust complaints of others. Yet, when we run away from the slightest hint of criticism, we forfeit the very means by which our Lord wants to make us more effective and godly.
Jerry Wragg
Mère Teresa
There's nothing more calming in difficult moments than knowing there's someone fighting with you.
Mother Teresa
Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within, 1998, p. 47.
You can feel the hostility of the flesh whenever you approach God – it makes real love for Him into work: Digging around the Bible to find a juicy new insight to impress your small group is like sailing the Caribbean, but poring over the Scriptures to find the Lover of your soul is like skiing up Mount Everest. Conjuring up a happy mood with some music you don’t even know the words to is like solving 2 + 2 with a calculator. But savoring the glory of Christ and His tender love until your heart is softened toward Him is like using mental math to calculate pi to the thousandth place. And giving a birthday present to your best friend is like forcing down some double-fudge brownies. But giving up your extra bedroom to a homeless person in the name of Jesus is like eating the Rockies for breakfast.
Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within, 1998, p. 47.
James Francis
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village, where He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never had a family or owned a home. He never set foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never wrote a book, or held an office. He did none of the things that usually accompany greatness. While He was still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. His friends deserted Him. He was turned over to His enemies, and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While He was dying, His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had – His coat. When He was dead, He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave. Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today He is the central figure for much of the human race. All the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever sailed, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as this “One Solitary Life”.
James Francis
Timothy Beougher
G.K. Chesterton once said it is surprising that people have rejected the doctrine of original sin because it is the only doctrine that can be empirically verified.
Timothy Beougher
JOHN MAIN
MOINE BÉNÉDICTIN ANGLAIS
MOMENT DU CHRIST, 1984
The central message of the New Testament is that there is really only one prayer and that is the prayer of Christ. It is a prayer that continues in our hearts day and night. It is the stream of love that flows constantly between Jesus and his Father. It is the Holy Spirit. It is the most important task of any fully human life to become as open as possible to this stream of love.
JOHN MAIN
ENGLISH BENEDICTINE MONK
MOMENT OF CHRIST, 1984
Auteur inconnu
Auteur inconnu
The church’s unique, God-given purpose does not lie in political activism. Nowhere in Scripture do we have the directive to spend our energy, our time, or our money in governmental affairs. Our mission lies not in changing the nation through political reform, but in changing hearts through the Word of God. When believers think the growth and influence of Christ can somehow be allied with government policy, they corrupt the mission of the church. Our Christian mandate is to spread the gospel of Christ and to preach against the sins of our time. Only as the hearts of individuals in a culture are changed by Christ will the culture begin to reflect that change.
Unknown Author
Wayne Mack, To Be or Not To Be a Church Member, Calvary Press, 2004, p. 31.
The church, as defined by the Word of God, is a group of Christians who dedicate themselves to meeting together for the regular preaching of the Word of God; who submit themselves to biblical eldership; who regularly celebrate the ordinances of the church (baptism and the Lord’s Supper); and who practice and submit themselves to church discipline as laid out in Scripture.
Wayne Mack, To Be or Not To Be a Church Member, Calvary Press, 2004, p. 31.
SØREN KIERKEGAARD (1813-1855)
PHILOSOPHE ET THÉOLOGIEN LUTHÉRIEN DANOIS
LA PRATIQUE DU CHRISTIANISME, 1848
Every human being is able to become contemporary only with the time in which he is living—and then with one more, with Christ’s life upon the earth, for Christ’s life upon the earth, the sacred history, stands alone by itself, outside history.
SØREN KIERKEGAARD (1813–1855)
DANISH LUTHERAN PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN
PRACTICE IN CHRISTIANITY, 1848
En lisant ce verset, nous pouvons tous objectivement témoigner de l'agitation qui se crée parfois en nous, en raisons de nos pensées que nous avons du mal à contrôler afin de parvenir à calmer notre être intérieur.
Il y a cependant des consolations divines à travers lesquelles Dieu vient apporter une joie profonde à nos âmes. Laissez moi vous en communiquer une que je vais simplement introduire par une simple question : Savez-vous que rien ne vient à l'esprit de Dieu ?
Nous devons réaliser que notre Dieu n'appréhende pas l'actualité comme nous et qu'il ne fait pas l'acquisition des informations en fonction du temps qui se déploie et des évènements qui s'y déroulent. En fait, Dieu sait toutes choses et cela de toute éternité car il se trouve hors du temps et que tout ce qui arrive n'échappe pas à sa volonté active ou permissive.
Dans Lamentations 33.37-38, il est écrit : "Qui dira qu’une chose arrive, sans que le Seigneur l’ait ordonnée ? N’est-ce pas de la volonté du Très Haut que viennent les maux et les biens ?"
Ainsi, lorsque les difficultés vous tiraillent, réalisez que tout ce qui vous arrive actuellement, Dieu le connaissait depuis bien longtemps et que rien n'a échappé à son contrôle.
Il se peut que Dieu ne nous accorde pas toujours une réponse favorables à nos requêtes immédiatement ; simplement parce que nous ne sommes pas toujours aptes à recevoir le cadeau maintenant. Parfois aussi , il lui arrive de nous dire «non» parce qu'il a prévu de nous donner quelque chose de bien meilleur."
Selon Hébreux 10.23, je vous engage à rester fermement attachés à l’espérance que vous avez reconnue comme vraie. Celui qui vous a fait les promesses est entièrement digne de confiance : vous pouvez être sûrs qu’il tiendra parole.
J'espère ce partage vous redonner espoir alors que vos pensées cherchent à vous décourager car votre foi repose sur un Dieu fidèle."
Auteur inconnu
Charles Kingsley
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
Charles Kingsley
Auteur inconnu, The Kneeling Christian, vers 1930, ch. 6.
Is it not worthwhile to be wholly and whole-heartedly yielded to Christ? The half-and-half Christian is of very little use either to God or man. God cannot use him, and man has no use for him, but considers him a hypocrite. One sin allowed in the life wrecks at once our usefulness and our joy, and robs prayer of its power.
Unknown Author, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 6.
Martin Luther
It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.
Martin Luther
JIMMY CARTER (JAMES EARL CARTER)
PRÉSIDENT DES ÉTATS-UNIS
SOURCES OF STRENGTH : MEDITATIONS ON SCRIPTURE FOR A LIVING FAITH, 1997
All of us can try to live an average life—nothing special, but good enough to get along and to make us feel self-satisfied. But an important reason to study the Scriptures is to help each of us define and strive for a transcendent life—a life that reaches above and beyond what is normally expected of us. From Scripture, we can learn how Jesus Christ lived and what he set forth as proper priorities for human existence. We are aware of this opportunity in moments of exaltation or inspiration, when we are embarrassed by our own inadequacies, or perhaps when we are in total despair. The Bible offers concrete guidance for overcoming our weaknesses and striving toward the transcendent life for which we were created.
JIMMY CARTER (JAMES EARL CARTER)
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
SOURCES OF STRENGTH: MEDITATIONS ON SCRIPTURE FOR A LIVING FAITH, 1997