Quotes 11 Sep 17

Jesus: The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.-Tim Keller Wisdom‏ @DailyKeller

"...according to the teaching of the Bible there is no true and real knowledge of God except in and through Christ." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones‏ @D_M_LloydJones

I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.-William Cowper, verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.

If it be objected, How is it consistent with Christ giving ‘Himself a ransom for all’, that so many perish in their sins? the answer is clear: We must distinguish between the sufficiency of His ransom and the efficacy of it; He paid a ransom worthy to obtain the salvation of all men, and has done whatever was requisite to reconcile to God, and make men capable of salvation; but only those who by a lively faith depend on Him, and obey Him, are actual partakers of salvation: that is, no person but may be saved in believing; and if men perish, it is not from a defect of righteousness in the Mediator, but from the love of their lusts, and their obstinate rejecting their own mercies. And it is unjust that the glory of His Divine compassion and love should be obscured or lessened for their ungrateful neglect of it.- Matthew Poole's Commentary (London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1963), 777-778.

“When the 2015 crisis was at its height many individuals in Britain from the leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party to the Labour Party Shadow Home Secretary, with numerous actors and rock stars in between, had said they would take in a refugee family. More than a year later not one of these people had actually done so. As with the generosity and benevolence throughout the crisis, it was easy to expect others to be benevolent on your own behalf once you had signaled that you are on the side of the Earth’s poor and oppressed. The consequences of your benevolence could be left to others.” Douglas Murray – The Strange Death of Europe (Page 285)