Latest Michael Horton Quotes from Interviews

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• Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

  Michael Horton

  Taken, Ambition, Son

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.

  Michael Horton

  Running, Mean, Ordinary

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

  Michael Horton

  Passion, Son, Salvation

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Light, Giving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Godly, Maturity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!

  Michael Horton

  Jesus, Helping, Spirituality

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage.

  Michael Horton

  Jesus, Children, Party

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• You can't find a YouTube clip to become a craftsman, friend, parent - or disciple of Christ. It's all of grace. And to grow in that grace, you need two things: time and community.

  Michael Horton

  Two, Community, Parent

  Source: www.patheos.com

• At the end of the day, we need to stop thinking about what we can make of ourselves and start thinking more about who God is, what he has done and is doing in Christ for us and for our neighbors, and how he can use us and our fellow brothers and sisters to be instruments of his gift-giving.

  Michael Horton

  Brother, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.patheos.com

• If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

  Michael Horton

  Athlete, Google, Want

  Source: www.patheos.com

• Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."

  Michael Horton

  Athlete, Commitment, Artist

  Source: www.patheos.com

• Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

  Michael Horton

  Attachment, Leader, Excellence

  Source: www.patheos.com