"In Adam and Eve, we begin naked. In God's city we appear clothed as a bride (Rev. 21:2)."
- Paul Marshall. Modern Technology: idol or divine gift? Evangelical Review of Theology 10 (1986) 261.
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. And yet, I thought something quite remote from anything the builders intended has come out of their work; something none of us thought about at the time...” Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1943)
While everyone may have a census divinitatis, Calvin observed that we all refashion that sense of deity to our own interests and desires unless through the Spirit and the Scripture our view of God is corrected and clarified. - Timothy Keller, - Prayer, Experiencing awe and intimacy with God, p. 45 quoted in p.24 Knowing God and knowing Ourselves, David b Colhoun
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might with judgment; for he who fawns for smiles, or trembles at frowns, will never lead a noble life for long. -C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 35 [1889]
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.- Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic, 1957. Quoted in 100 good reasons to be a Republican, "New Statesman", August 2000.
Monday 31 July 2017
Friday 28 July 2017
Quotes 29 Jul 17
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. - Calvin’s Institutes, 1.1.1 quoted in p.21 Knowing God and knowing Ourselves, David b Colhoun
That which is the Origin of everything else is necessarily self-existent and eternal. - Calvin
"Christ will not refuse to save the greatest sinners, who in a right manner come to God for mercy; for this is His work." - Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Edwards Vol. 2
[Magna Carta provided] “a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.”-Winston Churchill, Magna Carta and Man’s Quest for Freedom
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. -Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) _Everybody's Autobiography_ [1937], Chapter 2
That which is the Origin of everything else is necessarily self-existent and eternal. - Calvin
"Christ will not refuse to save the greatest sinners, who in a right manner come to God for mercy; for this is His work." - Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Edwards Vol. 2
[Magna Carta provided] “a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.”-Winston Churchill, Magna Carta and Man’s Quest for Freedom
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. -Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) _Everybody's Autobiography_ [1937], Chapter 2
Thursday 27 July 2017
Quotes 28 Jul 17
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you. - -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Knowing God_ [1973]
As long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffuse feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.- Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (186
7)
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
Martyred on July 27, 1681. His last words were “farewell, all relations and friends in Christ; farewell, acquaintances and earthly enjoyments; farewell, reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproach, and sufferings. Welcome, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; into Thy hands I commend my spirit.”- Donald Cargill
Britain is fortunate indeed in having a breed of distinguished people ...whom people come from all over the world to see. It would be an act of cruelty to impose that function of royalty on any normal family of citizens, but seeing that there is a family which is born to it as the fruit of a long historical evolution it would be an act of great political folly to establish a Presidency...I have such a strong sense of the political usefulness of British royalty to substantial and competent progressive forces in the society. - Brendan Clifford, "The Monarchy & Progress", in "Labour & Trade Union Review" Magazine, December 1987.
As long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffuse feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.- Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (186
7)
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
Martyred on July 27, 1681. His last words were “farewell, all relations and friends in Christ; farewell, acquaintances and earthly enjoyments; farewell, reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproach, and sufferings. Welcome, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; into Thy hands I commend my spirit.”- Donald Cargill
Britain is fortunate indeed in having a breed of distinguished people ...whom people come from all over the world to see. It would be an act of cruelty to impose that function of royalty on any normal family of citizens, but seeing that there is a family which is born to it as the fruit of a long historical evolution it would be an act of great political folly to establish a Presidency...I have such a strong sense of the political usefulness of British royalty to substantial and competent progressive forces in the society. - Brendan Clifford, "The Monarchy & Progress", in "Labour & Trade Union Review" Magazine, December 1987.
Wednesday 26 July 2017
Quotes 27 Jul 17
“Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.”- Enoch Powell, 8th June, 1973
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues?It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see."-Enoch Powell Speech to the Turves Green Girls School, Northfield, Birmingham (13 June 1970)
What I saw in Brooklyn is happening all across the West. Christianity’s decline is leading not to austere secularism, but to a wild flowering of shamanic healers, spirit crystals, and transcendental maharishis. [...] We may be tempted simply to have an urbane laugh at the follies of the superstitious, but that would be a mistake. They see something the great and good cannot: We live in a world full of spirits. Agnostic indifference to this fact may be possible for a time, but very few men are capable of sustained and thoroughgoing unbelief. This is why no superstition is more ridiculous than the pretense of secularism, and anyone who thinks Christianity will give way to atheism is a far greater fool than the most credulous ghost hunter. ~ Matthew Schmitz, "My Shamanic Healing" First Things, August 2017 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/08/my-shamanic-healing
Christian denominations that embraced Feminism in the 20th century are the ones now overrun by LGBT activists. - Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues?It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see."-Enoch Powell Speech to the Turves Green Girls School, Northfield, Birmingham (13 June 1970)
What I saw in Brooklyn is happening all across the West. Christianity’s decline is leading not to austere secularism, but to a wild flowering of shamanic healers, spirit crystals, and transcendental maharishis. [...] We may be tempted simply to have an urbane laugh at the follies of the superstitious, but that would be a mistake. They see something the great and good cannot: We live in a world full of spirits. Agnostic indifference to this fact may be possible for a time, but very few men are capable of sustained and thoroughgoing unbelief. This is why no superstition is more ridiculous than the pretense of secularism, and anyone who thinks Christianity will give way to atheism is a far greater fool than the most credulous ghost hunter. ~ Matthew Schmitz, "My Shamanic Healing" First Things, August 2017 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/08/my-shamanic-healing
Christian denominations that embraced Feminism in the 20th century are the ones now overrun by LGBT activists. - Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Quotes 26 Jul 17
Real spiritual growth is always growth downward,
so to speak, into profounder humility, which in
healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age. -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Finishing Our Course With Joy_ [2014], "We Look Forward"
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself
to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it
were, with no sense of direction and no understanding
of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul. -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Knowing God_ [1973]
We should] choose the leisure activities that bring
us closest to God, to people, to beauty, and to all that ennobles. -J.I. Packer (1926- ) _God's Plans For You_ [2001], "A Christian Style of Life"
Anyone who is actually following a recognized road
will not be too worried if he hears nontravelers
telling each other that no such road exists.-J.I. Packer (1926- ) _Knowing God_ [1973]
Quotes 25 Jul 17
Our work matters as part of a bigger picture. JFK at NASA to a Janitor: "what's your job?" Reply: "I helped put a man on the moon by…”- Dave Bish @davebish
I think that health is the greatest blessing that
God ever sends us, except sickness, which is far
better. I would give anything to be perfectly
healthy, but if I had to go over my time again, I
could not get on without those sickbeds and those
bitter pains and those weary, sleepless nights.
Oh, the blessedness that comes to us through suffering! -Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 38 [1892]
To love anyone is nothing else than to wish that person good - Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the
covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely
does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us
his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide
us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that,
whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may
make, we shall come safely home.
Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but
the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be
caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise;
this is how good he is. -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Knowing God_ [1973]
I think that health is the greatest blessing that
God ever sends us, except sickness, which is far
better. I would give anything to be perfectly
healthy, but if I had to go over my time again, I
could not get on without those sickbeds and those
bitter pains and those weary, sleepless nights.
Oh, the blessedness that comes to us through suffering! -Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 38 [1892]
To love anyone is nothing else than to wish that person good - Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the
covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely
does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us
his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide
us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that,
whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may
make, we shall come safely home.
Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but
the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be
caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise;
this is how good he is. -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Knowing God_ [1973]
Sunday 23 July 2017
Quotes 24 Jul 17
"The church too often takes sin lightly because it takes God lightly. Lives of repentance flow out of lives of worship." —G.K. Beale, Westminster Seminary @WestminsterTS
"I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood."- Charles Spurgeon
Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.-- J.C7 ps20mat6
"Turning to the Lord in prayer for help and interceding for those we are anxious for is not a casual or infrequent thing, not if we are going to put into practice what those in the continuity of Scriptural teaching have tried to follow."- From The Life of Prayer, by Edith Schaeffer, 1992, page 157.
"I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood."- Charles Spurgeon
Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.-- J.C7 ps20mat6
"Turning to the Lord in prayer for help and interceding for those we are anxious for is not a casual or infrequent thing, not if we are going to put into practice what those in the continuity of Scriptural teaching have tried to follow."- From The Life of Prayer, by Edith Schaeffer, 1992, page 157.
Friday 21 July 2017
Quotes 22 Jul 17
There is no motive to a holy life so powerful and efficacious as that which is drawn from the propitiatory work of Christ.— Smeaton, Banner of TruthVerified account @BannerofTruth
"Physical birth is a marvel; but from several standpoints, the new birth is more remarkable. It is a marvel of Divine grace, Divine wisdom, Divine power, and Divine beauty.- AW Pink, Regeneration
The church begins to crumble when it's made up of people who live to be entertained.- Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
"Physical birth is a marvel; but from several standpoints, the new birth is more remarkable. It is a marvel of Divine grace, Divine wisdom, Divine power, and Divine beauty.- AW Pink, Regeneration
The church begins to crumble when it's made up of people who live to be entertained.- Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
Thursday 20 July 2017
Quotes for 21 Jul 17
There are almost 70000 references to the Bible in the final edition of the Institutes. - David B Calhoun, Knowing God and Ourselves, p.7
If folk "don't hear the truth, cool music won't help. If they don't see the light, power-point won't help. If they don't like the message, drama and video won't help. They're blind and dead. Our task is to go on preaching not ourselves, we carry a supernatural message of everlasting life." - J. MacArthur
You can't accept Jesus as saviour without accepting him as Lord.
You also can't accept Jesus as saviour without accepting him as Example.- Sam Allberry @SamAllberry
God will reveal things to a man with a broken heart, but He will not reveal things unless the man’s heart is broken ~ AW Tozer
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Quotes 20 Jul 17
"Be as critical of yourself as you often are of others. Be as generous to others as you always are with yourself." -Alistair Begg
Consider that in thy troubles God is performing that work in which thy soul would rejoice, if thou couldst see the design of it.- John Flavel @FlavelJohn
The @scotgov say they want our opinion on gender neutral toilets - no they don't. All such 'consultations' are fake pretence at listening - David Robertson @theweeflea
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering” (Theodore Roosevelt).
My own experience during the election tells me that people don’t mind people of faith in politics – so long as their faith is only of the cultural variety. So, if you wear funky garb, have nice colourful festivals, have interesting buildings and ceremonies, then we are absolutely fine about your faith – in fact your religious culture makes us more diverse and allows me to define myself as very liberal and tolerant by demonstrating how cool I am with your religion.However the moment you show any signs of actually believing in this creed, of thinking that this stuff about Jesus might even be true or that this faith might in any way impact on your conscience or your life choices… well, we don’t like that one bit. - Tim Farron https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/tim-farron-youre-meant-feel-marginalised-christian/
Consider that in thy troubles God is performing that work in which thy soul would rejoice, if thou couldst see the design of it.- John Flavel @FlavelJohn
The @scotgov say they want our opinion on gender neutral toilets - no they don't. All such 'consultations' are fake pretence at listening - David Robertson @theweeflea
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering” (Theodore Roosevelt).
My own experience during the election tells me that people don’t mind people of faith in politics – so long as their faith is only of the cultural variety. So, if you wear funky garb, have nice colourful festivals, have interesting buildings and ceremonies, then we are absolutely fine about your faith – in fact your religious culture makes us more diverse and allows me to define myself as very liberal and tolerant by demonstrating how cool I am with your religion.However the moment you show any signs of actually believing in this creed, of thinking that this stuff about Jesus might even be true or that this faith might in any way impact on your conscience or your life choices… well, we don’t like that one bit. - Tim Farron https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/tim-farron-youre-meant-feel-marginalised-christian/
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Quotes 19 Jul 17
In God's garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit - because their roots are in Christ.- Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ~Brendan Behan
It's time for #DrWho to be played by a black one-legged Muslim lesbian with bipolar disorder. Acting experience optional #Doctor13 #DrWho13 - Archbishop Cranmer @His_Grace
God's answer to disunity:
Meet with people unlike you.
Sing, eat, drink, read & pray with them.
Love them all.
Be the Church. - Andrew Wilson
As the saints [in heaven] will love God with an inconceivable ardency of heart and to the utmost of their capacity, so they will know that he has loved them from all eternity, and still loves them, and will continue to love them forever.- Jonathan Edwards ,Charity and Its Fruit@AJWTheology
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ~Brendan Behan
It's time for #DrWho to be played by a black one-legged Muslim lesbian with bipolar disorder. Acting experience optional #Doctor13 #DrWho13 - Archbishop Cranmer @His_Grace
God's answer to disunity:
Meet with people unlike you.
Sing, eat, drink, read & pray with them.
Love them all.
Be the Church. - Andrew Wilson
As the saints [in heaven] will love God with an inconceivable ardency of heart and to the utmost of their capacity, so they will know that he has loved them from all eternity, and still loves them, and will continue to love them forever.- Jonathan Edwards ,Charity and Its Fruit@AJWTheology
Monday 17 July 2017
Quotes 18 Jul 17
“Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God.” -John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
“No creature has a force more wondrous or glorious than that of the sun . . . the sun does not daily rise and set by blind instinct of nature but that he himself, to renew our remembrance of his fatherly favors toward us, governs its course.” - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
“In times of adversity, believers comfort themselves with the solace that they suffer nothing except by God’s ordinance and command, for they are under his hand.”-John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
God never bestows the grace of justification without the grace of sanctification.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
The reason heresy matters, and must be fought with passion and intellectual clarity, is because heresy does not tell the truth about God or the self. And only the Truth can set us free. - Gavin Ashenden.
“No creature has a force more wondrous or glorious than that of the sun . . . the sun does not daily rise and set by blind instinct of nature but that he himself, to renew our remembrance of his fatherly favors toward us, governs its course.” - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
“In times of adversity, believers comfort themselves with the solace that they suffer nothing except by God’s ordinance and command, for they are under his hand.”-John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
God never bestows the grace of justification without the grace of sanctification.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
The reason heresy matters, and must be fought with passion and intellectual clarity, is because heresy does not tell the truth about God or the self. And only the Truth can set us free. - Gavin Ashenden.
Sunday 16 July 2017
17 Jul 17 Calvin on Providence
God’s providence, as it is taught in Scripture, is opposed to fortune and fortuitous happenings.” John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
“There is no such thing as fortune or chance. . . ’fortune’ and ‘chance’ are pagan terms, with whose significance the minds of the godly ought not to be occupied.”
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
“All events are governed by God’s secret plan.”- in this article, I’d like to encour
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
“Not one drop of rain falls without God’s sure command.”- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
“He so regulates all things that nothing takes place without his deliberation.”- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
Friday 14 July 2017
Quotes 15 Jul 17
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.- Jeremy Taylor
"It is a well-known fact that revolutions are not conducted from below by the people, but from above, in the name of the people, by an aspiring elite.”- Roger Scruton
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, he will not now forsake you because you are low. John Flavel
"The [contemporary secular] university, instead of transmitting culture, exists to deconstruct it, to remove its “aura,” and to leave the student, after four years of intellectual dissipation, with the view that anything goes and nothing matters." -- Roger Scruton explains how we got here and what to do about it: reverse course!
“He sustains, nourishes, and cares for everything he has made, even to the least sparrow.” John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
"It is a well-known fact that revolutions are not conducted from below by the people, but from above, in the name of the people, by an aspiring elite.”- Roger Scruton
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, he will not now forsake you because you are low. John Flavel
"The [contemporary secular] university, instead of transmitting culture, exists to deconstruct it, to remove its “aura,” and to leave the student, after four years of intellectual dissipation, with the view that anything goes and nothing matters." -- Roger Scruton explains how we got here and what to do about it: reverse course!
“He sustains, nourishes, and cares for everything he has made, even to the least sparrow.” John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
Thursday 13 July 2017
Quotes 14 Jul 17
Reason itself is a matter of faith. It's an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality. - Joshua D Jones@BlueCheezWhisky 2h
The testimony of a true Christian church ought to be how Christians love one another including the 'odd bods'. Christ likes odd bods. I sometimes say nearly all the fruitful Christian ministers and fruitful laymen I know, are odd bods. But they are odd bods with a mission, a mission to fit other odd bods, along with themselves, into a fellowship" (p51)"The Work of the Pastor" by William Still
"Oh, friends, if you are afraid of being overcome, take to praising God. If you are in trouble and do not know how to bear it, divert your thoughts by praising God.”- Charles Spurgeon, Sermon Sept.17, 1899
Are we taking God too lightly in our day and age, with our excuses for sin and lack of love and reverence towards Him? Oh Lord, awaken your Church! - Matthew Henry's Commentary.Hebrews 12:28-29
“…the scriptures have been wonderfully preserved, as the three children in the furnace, not a hair singed, not a jot and tittle of truth perished.” Thomas Manton, An Exposition of the epistle of Jude
The testimony of a true Christian church ought to be how Christians love one another including the 'odd bods'. Christ likes odd bods. I sometimes say nearly all the fruitful Christian ministers and fruitful laymen I know, are odd bods. But they are odd bods with a mission, a mission to fit other odd bods, along with themselves, into a fellowship" (p51)"The Work of the Pastor" by William Still
"Oh, friends, if you are afraid of being overcome, take to praising God. If you are in trouble and do not know how to bear it, divert your thoughts by praising God.”- Charles Spurgeon, Sermon Sept.17, 1899
Are we taking God too lightly in our day and age, with our excuses for sin and lack of love and reverence towards Him? Oh Lord, awaken your Church! - Matthew Henry's Commentary.Hebrews 12:28-29
“…the scriptures have been wonderfully preserved, as the three children in the furnace, not a hair singed, not a jot and tittle of truth perished.” Thomas Manton, An Exposition of the epistle of Jude
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Quotes 13 Jul 17
And the less the state takes in statutory taxation, the more you get to keep and freely give as you wish. So please don’t be lured by the archiepiscopal statist air that higher taxation = greater social justice = what Jesus wants. He wants you to give freely as your heart desires, for God loves a cheerful giver.- http://archbishopcranmer.com/sentamu-voluntary-tax/
Let us use great caution that neither our thoughts nor our speech go beyond the limits to which the Word of God itself extends.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
"Christ died"-that is history; "Christ died for our sins"-that is doctrine - . Gresham Machen @jg_machen 8
'A form of words, though e’er so sound, Can never save a soul; The Holy Ghost must give the wound, And make the wounded whole.’- @BannerofTruth
All that God does (for me) is in pursuance of, and in reference to some eternal, glorious ends upon my soul.- John Flavel
Let us use great caution that neither our thoughts nor our speech go beyond the limits to which the Word of God itself extends.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
"Christ died"-that is history; "Christ died for our sins"-that is doctrine - . Gresham Machen @jg_machen 8
'A form of words, though e’er so sound, Can never save a soul; The Holy Ghost must give the wound, And make the wounded whole.’- @BannerofTruth
All that God does (for me) is in pursuance of, and in reference to some eternal, glorious ends upon my soul.- John Flavel
Tuesday 11 July 2017
Quotes 12 Jul 17
I was a passionate LGBT supporter for about 15 years.... and then I changed, and accepted the real Gospel again.- @gavinashenden
The God of the Bible is a God of grace, who is faithful to us even when we are unfaithful to him.-Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller
The lives of the poor do not survive their deaths. Sumerian proverb http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index1.htm
When present, it was considered a loincloth; when lost, it is considered fine clothing. - Sumerian proverb http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index1.htm
We don't love others because they love us.
We love them because God loves us. -Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
The God of the Bible is a God of grace, who is faithful to us even when we are unfaithful to him.-Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller
The lives of the poor do not survive their deaths. Sumerian proverb http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index1.htm
When present, it was considered a loincloth; when lost, it is considered fine clothing. - Sumerian proverb http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index1.htm
We don't love others because they love us.
We love them because God loves us. -Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
Monday 10 July 2017
Quotes 11 Jul 17
“All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.”—Don Carson
God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C.S. Lewis
As with many things, hesitation is better than hurry. ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
Theosophists for instance will preach an obviously attractive idea like re-incarnation; but if we wait for its logical results, they are spiritual superciliousness and the cruelty of caste. For if a man is a beggar by his own pre-natal sins, people will tend to despise the beggar. But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such asoriginal sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908
God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C.S. Lewis
As with many things, hesitation is better than hurry. ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
Theosophists for instance will preach an obviously attractive idea like re-incarnation; but if we wait for its logical results, they are spiritual superciliousness and the cruelty of caste. For if a man is a beggar by his own pre-natal sins, people will tend to despise the beggar. But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such asoriginal sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908
Sunday 9 July 2017
Quotes 10 Jul 17
"Only the one who prays the Psalms can hope fruitfully to preach the Psalms”-
Christopher Ash (Teaching Psalms volume 1 pg 231)
The #Synod spent much time bemoaning the presence of conversion therapy.
Time might've been better spent weeping the absence of conversions.- Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
'No hat will I have save that of a martyr - reddened with my own blood.'-Savanarola (when refusing the bribe of becoming a Cardinal)1452 – 23 May 1498)
I was once told, "There’s no such thing as a 'successful marriage.' Some give up and some keep on trying...that’s the only difference.”-ɴᴇᴡ ɢᴇɴᴇᴠᴀ @NewGeneva
"The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man." —J. Gresham Machen
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Christopher Ash (Teaching Psalms volume 1 pg 231)
The #Synod spent much time bemoaning the presence of conversion therapy.
Time might've been better spent weeping the absence of conversions.- Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
'No hat will I have save that of a martyr - reddened with my own blood.'-Savanarola (when refusing the bribe of becoming a Cardinal)1452 – 23 May 1498)
I was once told, "There’s no such thing as a 'successful marriage.' Some give up and some keep on trying...that’s the only difference.”-ɴᴇᴡ ɢᴇɴᴇᴠᴀ @NewGeneva
"The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man." —J. Gresham Machen
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Friday 7 July 2017
Quotes for 8 Jul 17 - HB John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 8 Jul 1839
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1839 - 1937)
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere moneymaking has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build. --John D. Rockefeller, Sr, in Allen Nevins, _Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller_, v. 1
I believe the power to make money is a gift of God...to be developed and used to the best of our abiblity for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money, and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience. --John D. Rockefeller, Sr, in Matthew Josephson, _The Robber Barons_
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere moneymaking has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build. --John D. Rockefeller, Sr, in Allen Nevins, _Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller_, v. 1
I believe the power to make money is a gift of God...to be developed and used to the best of our abiblity for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money, and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience. --John D. Rockefeller, Sr, in Matthew Josephson, _The Robber Barons_
Thursday 6 July 2017
Quotes 7 Jul 17
If this world is all there is how can you be mad at suffering? Suffering is natural and so are the causes of suffering.- Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller
Suffering is a reminder this world is not the way it is supposed to be.- Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller 1
"How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us." (John Newton)
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Christians don’t fight for victory, but from victory, and to eternal victory, in Christ Jesus, who is victor for them on the cross, at the empty tomb, and at the Father’s right hand.- Joel Beeke
The average church in the UK is only 38% male on a Sunday morning and still theological feminists scream that it's too 'patriarchal'. Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
Suffering is a reminder this world is not the way it is supposed to be.- Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller 1
"How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us." (John Newton)
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Christians don’t fight for victory, but from victory, and to eternal victory, in Christ Jesus, who is victor for them on the cross, at the empty tomb, and at the Father’s right hand.- Joel Beeke
The average church in the UK is only 38% male on a Sunday morning and still theological feminists scream that it's too 'patriarchal'. Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
Wednesday 5 July 2017
Quotes 6 Jul 17
'That same sex attraction feels natural to me is not a sign of how God created me, it's a sign of how sin distorted me.'- Sam Allberry
"The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Spurgeon http://tfl.to/2ttFr5k Alistair Begg @AlistairBegg
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.- R.C. Sproul @RCSproul
'The root is faith in Christ. The inseparable companion is repentance, the fruit is obedience...true godliness.' - http://buff.ly/2tpeSwc William Perkins and the Pursuit of Godliness.
"Mary the mother of God...would lead us to magnify the Lord rather than herself." – John Calvin
"The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Spurgeon http://tfl.to/2ttFr5k Alistair Begg @AlistairBegg
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.- R.C. Sproul @RCSproul
'The root is faith in Christ. The inseparable companion is repentance, the fruit is obedience...true godliness.' - http://buff.ly/2tpeSwc William Perkins and the Pursuit of Godliness.
"Mary the mother of God...would lead us to magnify the Lord rather than herself." – John Calvin
Quotes 5 jul 17
Laziness is a kind of sadness. -Thomas Aquinas
It's like your girlfriend breaking up with you, & then celebrating with fireworks. Every year. For 300 years.--@StephenMerchant #4thjuly
The only thing that the church can provide to the world that is truly unique is the gospel.- Michael Horton @MichaelHorton_
It's like your girlfriend breaking up with you, & then celebrating with fireworks. Every year. For 300 years.--@StephenMerchant #4thjuly
The only thing that the church can provide to the world that is truly unique is the gospel.- Michael Horton @MichaelHorton_
Monday 3 July 2017
Quotes for 4 Jul 17
Happiness does not consist of what happens to you but in who you are.- Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller
“Nothing whatever, whether great or small, can happen to a believer, without God’s ordering and permission." – J.C. Ryle @JCRyle
Venture all, man, upon God's word and promise. — Richard Baxter
“What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.”- C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily
“Nothing whatever, whether great or small, can happen to a believer, without God’s ordering and permission." – J.C. Ryle @JCRyle
Venture all, man, upon God's word and promise. — Richard Baxter
“What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.”- C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily
Sunday 2 July 2017
Quotes for 3 Jul 17
It would bring little comfort to believers if our salvation relied on our keeping of the covenant.- Evangelical Times @EvangelicalTimes https://tinyurl.com/y9g5m68t
We see the presence of divine power shining as much in the continuing state of the universe as in its inception.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
There is no rational alternative to God , to explain our origins. - Otangelo Grasso
Nice sermon feedback: "You were amazing!"
Better sermon feedback: "That passage is amazing!"
Best sermon feedback: "Isn't Christ amazing!" - Sam Allberry @SamAllberry
We see the presence of divine power shining as much in the continuing state of the universe as in its inception.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
There is no rational alternative to God , to explain our origins. - Otangelo Grasso
Nice sermon feedback: "You were amazing!"
Better sermon feedback: "That passage is amazing!"
Best sermon feedback: "Isn't Christ amazing!" - Sam Allberry @SamAllberry
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