Jean Calvin
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin
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Jean Calvin
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin
G.K. Beale, Apocalypse, The New International Greek Testament Commentary, Eerdmans, 1999, p. 306.
The church’s spiritual malaise cannot be cured by resort to the resources of idolatrous society on which…Christians have been too dependent, or to their own resources. Their illness can be remedied only by a renewed relationship with Christ.
G.K. Beale, Revelation, The New International Greek Testament Commentary, Eerdmans, 1999, p. 306.
Francis Schaeffer, The New Super-Spirituality, IVP, 1972, p. 24.
We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.
Francis Schaeffer, The New Super-Spirituality, IVP, 1972, p. 24.
. . . La parfaite infaillibilité de la Bible dans toutes ses parties, en tant qu'enregistrement des faits et de la doctrine, tant dans la pensée que dans l'expression verbale. Ainsi, bien qu'elles nous parviennent par l'intermédiaire de l'esprit, du cœur, de l'imagination, de la conscience et de la volonté des hommes, elles sont néanmoins, au sens le plus strict, la parole de Dieu.
A. A. HODGE (1823-1886)
ECCLÉSIASTIQUE ET ÉDUCATEUR PRESBYTÉRIEN AMÉRICAIN
. . . The perfect infallibility of the Scriptures in every part, as a record of fact and doctrine both in thought and in verbal expression. So though they come to us through the instrumentality of minds, hearts, imaginations, consciences and wills of men, they are nevertheless in the strictest sense the word of God.
A. A. HODGE (1823–1886)
AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN CLERGYMAN AND EDUCATOR
La grâce à bon marché, c’est la grâce considérée comme une marchandise à liquider, le pardon au rabais, la consolation au rabais, le sacrement au rabais … ; la grâce non tarifiée, la grâce qui ne coûte rien…
La grâce à bon marché c’est la grâce envisagée en tant que doctrine, en tant que principe, en tant que système ; c’est le pardon des péchés considéré comme une vérité universelle ; c’est l’amour de Dieu pris comme idée chrétienne de Dieu.
L’affirmer, c’est posséder déjà le pardon de ses péchés…
Dans cette Eglise le monde trouve, à bon marché, un voile pour couvrir ses péchés, péchés dont il ne se repent pas et dont, à plus forte raison, il ne désire pas se libérer.
De ce fait la grâce à bon marché est la négation de la Parole vivante de Dieu, la négation de l’incarnation de la Parole de Dieu.
La grâce à bon marché, c’est la justification du péché et non point du pécheur. Puisque la grâce fait tout toute seule, tout n’a qu’à rester comme avant …
Que le chrétien vive donc dans le monde, qu’il soit en toutes choses semblable au monde et qu’il ne s’avise surtout pas de mener sous la grâce une vie différente de celle qu’on mène sous le péché !
La grâce qui coûte, c’est le trésor caché dans le champ : à cause de lui, l’homme va et vend joyeusement tout ce qu’il a… ; c’est la royauté du Christ : à cause d’elle, l’homme s’arrache l’œil qui est pour lui une occasion de chute ; c’est l’appel de Jésus Christ : l’entendant, le disciple abandonne ses filets et suit.
La grâce qui coûte, c’est l’évangile qu’il faut toujours chercher à nouveau ; c’est le don pour lequel il faut prier, c’est la porte à laquelle il faut frapper. Elle coûte parce qu’elle appelle à l’obéissance ; elle est grâce parce qu’elle appelle à l’obéissance à Jésus-Christ …
La grâce coûte cher d’abord parce qu’elle a coûté cher à Dieu, parce qu’elle a coûté à Dieu la vie de son Fils.
Cette Parole nous atteint sous la forme d’un appel miséricordieux à suivre Jésus sur la voie de l’obéissance, elle se présente à l’esprit angoissé et au cœur abattu sous la forme d’une parole de pardon.
La grâce coûte cher parce qu’elle contraint l’homme à se soumettre au joug de l’obéissance à Jésus-Christ. Mais c’est une grâce que Jésus dise : « Mon joug est doux et mon fardeau léger »
Dietriech BONHOEFFER : Le prix de la grâce
Jerry Wragg
The trustworthy leader, then will serve God best by feeding others with God’s food, reproving them with God’s Word, tending them with God’s heart, and disciplining them with God’s grace.
Jerry Wragg
Thomas Merton
Be good; keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Thomas Merton
BILLY GRAHAM (WILLIAM FRANKLIN GRAHAM JR.)
LEADER ET ÉCRIVAIN ÉVANGÉLIQUE AMÉRICAIN
LA PAIX AVEC DIEU, 1953
The fact of Jesus Christ is the eternal message of the Bible. It is the story of life, peace, eternity, and heaven. The Bible has no hidden purpose. It has no need for special interpretation. It has a single, clear, bold message for every living being—the message of Christ and His offer of peace with God.
BILLY GRAHAM (WILLIAM FRANKLIN GRAHAM JR.)
AMERICAN EVANGELICAL LEADER AND WRITER
PEACE WITH GOD, 1953
John Piper
Sin gets its power by persuading me to believe that I will be happier if I follow it. The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier.
John Piper
Jonathan Edwards, Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, 1741. La langue moderne est empruntée à Archie Parrish, The Spirit of Revival, Crossway Books, 2000, p. 71.
The Word of God is the principle means by which other means operate and are made effectual… For all that is visible to the eye is vague and vain without the Word of God to instruct and guide the mind. It is the Word of God that is indeed held forth and applied by example, just as the word of the Lord sounded forth to other towns of Macedonia and Achaia by the example of those who believed in Thessalonica.
Jonathan Edwards, Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, 1741. Modern language courtesy of Archie Parrish, The Spirit of Revival, Crossway Books, 2000, p. 71.
John Piper, Desiring God, 1996, p. 156.
Prayer pursues joy in fellowship with Jesus and in the power to share His life with others. And prayer pursues God’s glory by treating Him as the inexhaustible reservoir of hope and help. In prayer we admit our poverty and God’s prosperity, our bankruptcy and His bounty, our misery and His mercy. Therefore, prayer highly exalts and glorifies God precisely by pursuing everything we long for in Him and not in ourselves.
John Piper, Desiring God, 1996, p. 156.
Randy Smith
As we grow in Christ, we feel more unworthy to be in His presence, at times wanting to run, but more assured of His eternal commitment, His promise to always hold us close to Himself in His arms of love.
Randy Smith
Mark Ross
Where Christ is truly preached, there is the gospel; and where the gospel is truly believed, there is the church.
Mark Ross
John Piper
The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
John Piper
• "Il est le roi de gloire (Psaumes 24:10)
• "Il est notre aide" (Psaumes 33:20).
• "Il est mon refuge (Psaumes 91:2)
• "Il est mon rocher" (Psaumes 92:15)
• "Il est plein de grâce" (Ps 112:4)
• "Il est bon" (Psaumes 118:1)
• "Il est mon bienfaiteur et ma forteresse" (Psaumes 144:2)
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh! yes, [the prayer meeting] is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting…is the appointed place for the reception of power.
Charles H. Spurgeon
George Mueller
Oh, how very kind and good my heavenly Father has been to me! I have no aches or pains, no rheumatism, and now in my ninety-third year I can do a day's work at the orphan houses with as much ease and comfort to myself as ever.
George Mueller
J.C. Ryle, Matthew Commentary, chapitre 28.
Let us not fail to see in the manner of our Lord’s resurrection, a type and pledge of the resurrection of His believing people. The grave could not hold Him beyond the appointed time, and it shall not be able to hold them. A glorious angel was a witness of His rising, and glorious angels shall be the messengers who shall gather believers when they rise again. He rose with a renewed body, and yet a body, real, true, and material, and so also shall His people have a glorious body, and be like their Head. “When we see Him we shall be like Him” (1 Jn. 3:2.).
J.C. Ryle, Matthew Commentary, Chapter 28.
Rick Warren
Every temptation is an opportunity to do good.
Rick Warren