We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.
God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.
God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.
Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.
Only a disciple can make a disciple.
I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.
God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.
Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.
Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.
You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.
Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said.
Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change me and give me victory as I focus on Your friendly eyes looking lovingly at me. Amen.
Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.
We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.
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