“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” – Winston Churchill
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston Churchill
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln
“My people’s greatest need is for my own holiness.” – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
“Without Christ crucified in her pulpits, a Church is little better than a dead carcass, a well without water, a barren fig-tree, a sleeping watchman, a silent trumpet, a lighthouse without fire, a stumbling-block to weak believers, a comfort to unbelievers, a hot-bed for formalism, a joy to the devil, and an offence to God.” – J.C. Ryle
“Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of God’s willingness.” – George Mueller
“To touch the image of God is to touch God himself; to kill the image of God is to do violence to God himself.” – Anthony A. Hoekema, Created in God’s Image (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986), 16.
“Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.” – C.S. Lewis
“As creatures, we have no right or reason to expect that at every point we shall be able to comprehend the wisdom of our Creator.” – J.I. Packer
“Character is what we are when nobody sees us except God.” – John Blanchard
“To Satan no sight is beautiful but deformity itself, and no smell is sweet but filth and nastiness.” – John Calvin
“Did God not sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at our own request.” – Hannah More
“What have we time and strength for, but to lay out both for God? What is a candle made for, but to burn?” – Richard Baxter
“The gospel of justification by faith is such a shocker, such an explosion, because it is an absolutely unconditional promise. It is not an “if-then” kind of statement, but “because-therefore” pronouncement: because Jesus died and rose, your sins are forgiven and you are righteous in the sight of God! It bursts in upon our little world all shut up and barricaded behind our accustomed conditional thinking as some strange comet from goodness-knows-where, something we can’t really seem to wrap our minds around, the logic of which appears closed to us. How can it be entirely unconditional? Isn’t it terribly dangerous? How can anyone say flat out, “You are righteous for Jesus’ sake? Is there not some price to be paid, some-thing (however minuscule) to be done? After all, there can’t be such thing as a free lunch, can there?”
You see, we really are sealed up in the prison of our conditional thinking. It is terribly difficult for us to get out, and even if someone batters down the door and shatters the bars, chances are we will stay in the prison anyway! We seem always to want to hold out for something somehow, that little bit of something, and we do it with a passion and an anxiety that betrays its true source–the Old Adam that just does not want to lose control.” – Gerhard Forde, Justification by Faith: A Matter of Death and Life, pg. 24 Continue reading
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