L'or est le rideau du fou, qui cache au monde tous ses défauts.
Owen Feltham
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
Owen Feltham
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L'or est le rideau du fou, qui cache au monde tous ses défauts.
Owen Feltham
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
Owen Feltham
Cheryl Ford ; Treasures from the Heart, Crossway Books, 2000, p. 162-163.
God warned Lot’s wife of the impending disaster. He tried to rescue her from His judgment. He even set her on the way to salvation, shepherding her to safety. But the bent of her heart was even more powerful than the grasp of the angels leading her by the hand. She gave proof that she had never taken God seriously when she would not sever her heart-ties with Sodom. She came as close to deliverance without receiving it as was possible. Looking to the past she destroyed her future. Having received the grace of God in vain, she passed the point of no return. Not even the fire and brimstone falling around her could heal her divided heart… We might feel inclined to ask why Lot’s wife paid such a price for her error. Oh, but she sinned grievously against the Lord. Not only did she lack the pioneering pilgrim spirit required of those who leave their former lives for a better city, but she was in love with the sinful world… What she left behind and still held in her heart obviously was very dear to her, dearer than the treasures of God.
Cheryl Ford; Treasures from the Heart, Crossway Books, 2000, p. 162-163.
John Piper, God’s Passion for His Glory, Crossway, 1988.
If God has no need, why did He create and redeem? The answer is simple: God created to glorify His goodness. He created a context to display and exercise His moral perfections. We exist for God’s glory. We exist because God’s goodness is constantly overflowing, and He wants to display it and share it.
John Piper, God’s Passion for His Glory, Crossway, 1988.
Auteur inconnu
Auteur inconnu, The Kneeling Christian, vers 1930, ch. 7.
Prayer is measured, not by time, but by intensity.
Unknown Author, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 7.
Watchman Nee
If we know that the aim of the Holy Spirit is to lead man to the place of self-control, we shall not fall into passivity but shall make good progress in spiritual life. "The fruit of the Spirit is self-control"
Watchman Nee
Kent Hughes
In my ministry I have noticed that when people are hurting, they frequently express their hope for Christ’s return – “Oh! I wish the Lord would return today!” But I have never heard anyone say, “Things are going so well…I wish Christ would return right now!”
Kent Hughes
J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness, 1992, Regal, 1992.
The focus of health in the soul is humility, while the root of inward corruption is pride. In the spiritual life, nothing stands still. If we are not constantly growing downward into humility, we shall be steadily swelling up and running to seed under the influence of pride.
J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness, 1992, Regal, 1992.
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Brunot Gaudelet, La revue de théologie de la Faculté Jean Calvin
John Boys
The servants of the Lord are to sing His praises in this life to the world’s end; and in the next life world without end.
John Boys
Vance Havner
We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
Vance Havner
Michael Horton
[We must not let] hell, rather than God, becomes the object of fear (Mt. 10:28)… Whatever the exact nature of this everlasting judgment, it is horrible ultimately for one reason only: God is present… Hell is not ultimately about fire, but about God. Whatever the exact nature of the physical
punishments, the real terror awaiting the unrepentant is God Himself and His inescapable presence forever with His face turned against them.
Michael Horton
Don Kistler, Feed My Sheep, éd. Don Kistler, Soli Deo Gloria Ministries, 2002, p. 222.
We can preach with authority because Christ has given us that authority. Did He not say, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” It wasn’t “teaching them to observe all that I have suggested to you,” but “all that I have commanded you!”
Don Kistler, Feed My Sheep, ed. Don Kistler, Soli Deo Gloria Ministries, 2002, p. 222.
Edith Schaeffer
A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.
Edith Schaeffer
John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied, Eerdmans, 1955, p. 145.
Indeed, the more sanctified the person is, the more conformed he is to the image of his Savior, the more he must recoil against every lack of conformity to the holiness of God. The deeper his apprehension of the majesty of God, the greater the intensity of his love to God, the more persistent his yearning for the attainment of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, the more conscious will he be of the gravity of the sin that remains and the more poignant will be his detestation of it… Was this not the effect in all the people of God as they came into closer proximity to the revelation of God’s holiness?
John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied, Eerdmans, 1955, p. 145.