Quotes 14 Dec 17

God promises that those who seek him will lack no good thing. If something is good for you, God will give it to you.- Desiring God‏@desiringGod

“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”- C. S. Lewis‏ @CSLewisDaily

Of all the phrases of the Apostles’ Creed, the one which is most open to misunderstanding is: “I believe in the holy Catholic Church.” Many Protestants, feeling that in some way this portion of the Apostles’ Creed refers to the Roman Catholic Church, are ashamed to repeat it. Let us say, as we begin, that not only does “the holy Catholic Church” have no reference to Roman Catholicism, but it is the very antithesis of it.- Early Tract by Francis Schaeffer originally a message brought by the Rev. Francis A. Schaeffer on 12 November 1944.

If ‘Christ crucified’ has not his rightful place in your sermons, and ‘sin’ is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they out to believe, and be, and do—your preaching is of no use. - JC Ryle

"In Christ, suffering is the road to glory, the cross points to a crown, and the timber of the cross becomes a tree of life." –Herman Bavinck