Miscellaneous Quotes (83)

quotes“How many times have we prayed that God would make us Christlike, then begged him to take from us the very things he sent to make us Christlike? How many times has God heard our cries when we imagined he didn’t? How many times has he said no to our prayers when saying yes would have harmed us and robbed us of good? “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you’” (2 Cor. 12:9). – Randy Alcorn, Heaven

“A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern.” – J.C. Ryle

“We are not loving people when we’re telling them that God accepts them as they are without repentance, because we’re lying to them.” – R.C. Sproul

“It was a great design of God to advance all the elect to an exceeding pitch of glory, such as eye has not seen. He intended to bring them to perfect excellency and beauty in his image and in holiness which is the proper beauty of spiritual beings, and to advance ‘em to a glorious degree of honor and also to an ineffable pitch of pleasure and joy. [In all this] God designed to accomplish the glory of the blessed Trinity in an exceeding degree.” (Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative, 125).

“There is not the slightest detail that is overlooked by the gaze of God.” – R.C. Sproul

“Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.” – Thomas Brooks

“There is nothing new in theology but that which is false; only the old is true, for truth must be old, as old as God himself.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“We also, by God’s grace, briefly indicated the Word of the Father is Himself divine, that all things that are owe their being to His will and power, and that it is through Him that the Father gives order to creation, by Him that all things are moved, and through Him that they receive their being.” – Athanasius

“Any sin is more or less heinous depending upon the honor and majesty of the one whom we had offended. Since God is of infinite honor, infinite majesty, and infinite holiness, the slightest sin is of infinite consequence. The slightest sin is nothing less than cosmic treason when we realize against whom we have sinned.” – Jonathan Edwards

“Satan will come on with new temptations when old ones are too weak. In a calm prepare for a storm.” – Thomas Brooks

“Why is it that some have believed? It is because the Spirit has sanctified them, has set them apart, has called them out. It is the call of the Spirit; it is the work of the Spirit in conviction, and calling out, and giving power to believe.”- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Because of common grace, pagans too can create inspiring pieces of music, breathtaking paintings, and thrilling works of fiction. None of them do it, however, as an act of worship to God and with the recognition that we are using the paint of God with which He makes astounding works of art in natural creation, which is still seen despite the groaning of the scarred universe under the curse of sin.” – Unknown

“…man is still free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ.” – R.C. Sproul

“In too many churches, exposition has been replaced with entertainment, theology with theatrics, and the drama of redemption with just drama.” – Steve Lawson

Why the Past Matters

Earlier this week, in what is called a “Google hangout,” Ligonier’s newest Teaching Fellow and church historian, Dr. Stephen J. Nichols, talked about why the past matters today and tomorrow. From the early church, to the Reformation, and recent centuries, these are necessary discussions to avoid what C.S. Lewis called, “chronological snobbery.”