Quotes 31 Jul.

The ideological goal of third-wave feminism was not equality of men and women. It was the overthrow of the God of the Bible and the destruction of the traditional family. ‘Feminism began with the deconstruction of a Judeo-Christian view of womanhood (the right to name self); progressed to the deconstruction of manhood, gender relationships, family/societal structures, and a Judeo-Christian worldview (the right to name the world); and concluded with the concept of metaphysical pluralism, self-deification, and the rejection of the Judeo-Christian deity (the right to name God),’ Mary Kassian, The Feminist Mistake: The Radical Impact of Feminism on Church and Culture,

‘Feminism hadn’t been about equal rights for a long time. The goal was renunciation of heterosexuality and the destruction of the family and the church – social structures that cannot exist without the union of man and woman in marriage.’ - Gabriele Kuby

Part of the reason the Church of England surrendered so soon to the onslaught of feminism is its inherent leanings towards socialism and its left wing ideology of egalitarianism. Anglican feminists accepted both the basis and the strategy proposed by Simone de Beauvoir in her book The Second Sex. De Beauvoir declared that women needed to identify themselves as a group and collectively declare war on men. Equality would be achieved only by destroying male superiority and by refusing to succumb to a traditional role. In this case, it would mean elevating women to the priesthood and episcopate.- Jules Gomes,https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/How-feminist-Dambusters-destroyed-the-Church-of-England-beyond-repair, How feminist “Dambusters” destroyed the Church of England beyond repair, July 24, 2018

Anxiety (Not clinical, but rather the regular angst we have) is a daily statement to God saying, "I don't think you have my best interest in mind."- Timothy Keller
@timkellernyc

Whoever has been cut to the quick and overwhelmed with a sense of their own sin will surely seek the grace offered to him in Jesus Christ, and the world will be worth nothing to him. - John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily

Quotes 30 Jul

Let us resolve…to speak nothing harsh or unkind of each other. The sure way to avoid this is to say all the good we can both of and to another; in all our conversation, either with or concerning each other, to use only the language of love, to speak with all softness and tenderness, with the most endearing expression, which is consistent with truth and sincerity.- John Wesley

‘If I never spoke of hell, I should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.’
-J. C. Ryle

In 1935, Oxford anthropologist Joseph Unwin tried to prove that marriage was an irrelevant institution and the dam of sexual restraint could be blown up without any major blowback. After studying 86 different cultures over several centuries, his research led him to conclude precisely the opposite.- Jules Gomes,https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/How-feminist-Dambusters-destroyed-the-Church-of-England-beyond-repair, How feminist “Dambusters” destroyed the Church of England beyond repair, July 24, 2018
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‘Any human society is free to choose either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom; the evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation,’ - Joseph Unwin, Sex and Culture.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up,’ -  G K Chesterton.

Quotes 28 Jul

Let us resolve…to speak nothing harsh or unkind of each other. The sure way to avoid this is to say all the good we can both of and to another; in all our conversation, either with or concerning each other, to use only the language of love, to speak with all softness and tenderness, with the most endearing expression, which is consistent with truth and sincerity.- John Wesley

“...choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.” Hebrews 11:25
I love the realism of this. Let’s not pretend sin isn’t pleasurable, but realise it is never ultimately worth it. It forfeits more pleasure than it provides.- Sam Allberry @SamAllberry

I cannot be in Christ and lose. Never!! - Gordon A Gordon-Osagiede

There are many Christian wives who delight in submitting to their husbands because it honours their spouse, it honours the gospel and it honours Christ. It’s a powerful thing when they affirm this.- Gavin Peacock@GPeacock8

“There are two kinds of people in the world, only two kinds. Not black & white, not rich & poor; there are those who are dead #in sin & those who are dead #to sin.” - Leonard Ravenhill

Quotes 27 Jul

I bless God, he has for some years given me an abiding conviction, that it is impossible for any rational creature to enjoy true happiness without being entirely “devoted to him.” Under the influence of this conviction I have in some measure acted. Oh that I had done more so! - @BrainerdQuotes

You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. - attributed to George Orwell

Jesus was “full of grace and truth” (Jn 1:14)Grace and truth come together in Christ. They are not in tension; they do not need to be balanced.You cannot have one without having both. If you think you have one without the other, you have neither.If your thing is kindness and grace, but you never stand for hard truths, it is not biblical grace you embody but something counterfeit.If your thing is truth, but you lack grace and kindness, it is not biblical truth you are driven by but more likely a love of being right.- Sam Allberry@SamAllberry

Offending people today is child’s play: Merely state the obvious. ~ Patrick Kurp, 2007

Quotes 26 Jul

Because of this mobile device, you have now an absence 

of what I call leisurely reading.  You have a generation 

(whose) brains have been wired to look at short pieces 

with not long attention spans--part of a physiological 

change in your brain, literally. [...] 

Kids today want to buy vinyl records.  So you'll have 

hipster kids wanting to see paper soon. I don't think 

touching paper and reading will actually go away. 

There will be a need for leisurely reading and the 

tactile feel. 

--Patrick Soon-Shiong (1952-    ) 

      _TheGuardian.Com_ [July 21, 2018], 

      "The Billionaire Who Bought The LA Times: 

      'Hipsters Will Want Paper Soon'" 

If an atheist derides Christianity there’s no ‘phobia’ to wave at them in admonition. The comfort of having an invented phobia to protect you from your detractors is a privilege reserved for Western self-obliterationists’ chosen people. -- Aidan McCourt on Twitter 

Today, our little ones are exposed to every kind 

of perversion and danger with a click of a button-- 

be it TV, Internet, cell phones, or just a stroll 

through the local mall.  Today, the words of the 

weeping prophet Jeremiah cause a lump in my 

throat as I read them aloud.  Speaking of a sinful 

generation, the Lord said: 

"Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? 

     No, they have no shame at all; they do not even 

     know how to blush.  So they will fall among the 

     fallen; they will be brought down when I punish 

     them." --Jeremiah 6:15 NIV 

In an age where gay and lesbian experimentation is 

considered normal on campuses, when oral sex and 

every type of perversion imaginable is just winked 

at (kids call that "technical virginity" now), when 

sexual affairs before and after marriage are totally 

acceptable, our little ones are positioned to be an 

unblushable generation. 

Already they are becoming so familiar with sin that 

when they see immodest filth, they giggle when they 

should instead blush and turn away. 

--Jentezen Franklin (1962-    ) 

      _Fasting_ [2008], "For The Little Ones"

‘You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. -  Calvin Coolidge

"Disillusionment with our local church is a good thing because it destroys our false expectations of perfection. The sooner we give up the illusion that a church must be perfect in order to love it, the sooner we quit pretending and start admitting we're all imperfect and need grace. This is the beginning of real community." Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together

Quotes 25 Jul

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.” --Mark Twain, “The Gorky Incident

“PEDANTRY may be defined, for the purpose of this book, as the saying of things in language so learned or so demonstratively accurate as to imply a slur upon the generality, who are not capable or not desirous of such displays. The term, then, is obviously a relative one; my pedantry is your scholarship, his reasonable accuracy, her irreducible minimum of education, & someone else’s ignorance.” --H.W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences. It doesn’t necessarily mean that he knows this, or that he is considering any great alternative. It could just be an accident. -- Henry Kissinger

Elections give the illusion of freedom but are in
fact a game among the powers that be, this is
why we talk of "formal democracy."
Instead of drawing forth the best energies of a
people, this legal institution hands actual control
to very different forces, turning democracy into
another form of oligarchy and dictatorship.
--Karl Jaspers (1883-1969)
      _The Future Of Mankind_ [1958], Chapter 17

Enthusiasm for a medium that keeps you away from human beings strikes me
as worrying.~ Ian Hislop 1960- (1996)

Quotes 24 Jul

Oh, my dear God, I am speedily coming to thee, I hope. Hasten the day, O Lord, if it be thy blessed will. Oh come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Amen. -David Brainerd @BrainerdQuotes

“What is going on in this country is giving me chills. Trump is not like Hitler. Just because a leader wants order doesn’t mean they’re like a dictator.What reminds me more of Hitler than anything else isn’t Trump, it’s the destruction of freedom of speech on the college campuses — the agendas fueled by the professors.That’s how Hitler started, he pulled in the youth to miseducate them, to brainwash them, it’s happening today.I see what is happening here reflecting some of the things we saw in Germany, and it’s terrifying. It’s sad. But it’s not because of Trump. It’s because of poor education.Trump is not like Hitler. The theory that he is is propaganda. Yes, I lived through some of Nazi Germany, but all you have to do is read some books about that period to see how wrong that theory is.It saddens me that we are teaching garbage in the schools and in the college. We don’t teach history anymore. History repeats itself over and over.
America needs to grow up. The young people who are rioting and destroying property, who have no respect for elders and freedom of speech, I was so proud to become a citizen of this country.Professors shouldn’t be telling their students to go after freedom of speech. They should be telling them that this is the greatest country in the world.The demonstrators can’t tell you why they’re demonstrating. I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I just want the country to be at peace.
I see what is happening here reflecting some of the things we saw in Germany, and it’s terrifying. It’s sad. But it’s not because of Trump. It’s because of poor education.Trump is not like Hitler. The theory that he is is propaganda. Yes, I lived through some of Nazi Germany, but all you have to do is read some books about that period to see how wrong that theory is.”
My point in saying all this is that if people aren’t able to see outside of one world view, that’s what happens. They buy the propaganda. And that’s what is happening today. And if people aren’t educated properly and given the ability to think freely — we will repeat that history.” - Inga Andrews, https://yournewswire.com/woman-hitler-germany-liberals-nazis/

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.- Calvin Coolidge

Quotes 21 Jul

"Bodily hunger cannot make a man so miserable as spiritual hunger makes him blessed" — Thomas Watson

The Muslim Brotherhood is very strong and active 

here in our country.  We have these people advising 

our military and State Department.  We've brought in 

Muslims to tell us how to make policy toward Muslim 

countries.  It's like a farmer asking a fox, 

"How do I protect my hen house?" 

 --Franklin Graham (1952-    ) 

      _Newsmax.com_ [March 19, 2011], 

      "Franklin Graham: World's Christians In Grave Danger" 

Islam is a religion of hatred.  It's a religion of war.  For 

Muslims, peace comes only through submission to Islam. 

When they speak of peace, they mean submission to 

their religion. . . . 

Worldwide, tens of thousands of men, women and children 

have been slaughtered in the name of Allah, under the 

bloody flag of Islam. 

--Franklin Graham (1952-    ) 

      (In David R. Reagan's 

      _God's Prophetic Voices To America_ [2017], 

      "Franklin Graham: A Voice Calling For Repentance") 

God has made the spread of his fame hang on the preaching of his Word; and he has made the preaching of his Word hang on the prayers of the saints” John Piper

Quotes 20 Jul

His (Trump's) concern was and remains the de-Christianisation of Europe. As mass Muslim immigration coincides with the EU's ascendant secularisation, the historic spirit of Europe is changing; it is patently being lost, and there is understandable disquiet about the transformation. As the Archbishop of Canterbury has made clear, "Fear is a valid emotion at a time of such colossal crisis. This is one of the greatest movements of people in human history. Just enormous. And to be anxious about that is very reasonable."-Trump to Europe: “You are losing your culture”by Archbishop Cranmer

Praise band culture, turning worship services into overt concerts (with applause after songs), has overturned one of the cherished evangelical symbols, without, it seems, anyone much noticing. I don't just mean the frankly postmodern music, with tuneless repetitions of musical fragments; or the postmodern words which never tell much of a story but repeat bits and pieces of Christian devotion more or less at random; or the endless highlighting of a kind of romantic falling-in-love-with-Jesus spirituality which never seems to realize that romantic love is a match designed to light a more long-lasting candle. No: I mean the near absence of the reading, or the singing, of scripture. . . . The clear, public reading of the Bible, Old and New Testaments, so that the congregation can hear it and understand it, is a performative celebration of what the Reformation was all about. The Psalms are not a strange old set of poems, detached from where most people are today. They were Jesus' prayer book and they should be at the heart of ours.
 The anti-sacramentalism of some earlier Evangelicalism (a position not shared, of course, by some of the great older evangelical heroes like the Wesleys, or the great Reformers themselves) has come to full and dangerous fruition. - N.T. Wright

The God of Islam is not the same God.  He's not
the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian
faith.  It's a different God, and I believe it is
a very evil and wicked religion.
     --Franklin Graham (1952-    )
      (At a North Carolina chapel dedication event, 2001)
      _Examiner.com_ [December 15, 2009],
      "Evil Wicked Religion: Franklin Graham's Attack On Islam"

Quotes 19 Jul

“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.” – Augustine

The God of the universe became a wiggling baby in order to get close to you.- Timothy Keller@timkellernyc

Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat. == eIris Chang, The Rape of Nanjing: The Forgotten Holocaust  of World War II, 1997, "Epilogue"

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

If your prayer meetings are empty, it doesn’t matter how full your services are. - Howard Huntington@peacechaser

Quotes 18 Jul

It is profitable to the pious to business and settled on earth list by settling their minds on any commodious and quiet habitation they should lose the inheritance in heaven - Calvin on Genesis 21

Homosexuality is not  a right of conduct. It is a condition characterised by a psycho sexual propensity towards others of the same sex. Some do not commit sexual acts because they exercise a rigorous control over their physical urges just as some heterosexuals exercise careful control over their physical compulsions. It follows that the homosexual condition is morally neutral. It is only when he expresses his inclination in a sexual act that the homosexual becomes subject to moral censure. - M Schofield, Sociological aspects of homosexuality 1965 page 148
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When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. --Charles Livingston Allen (1913-2005) (In Frank S. Mead's _12,000 Religious Quotations_ [1996], "Hope")

Talking about death won't bring it a moment sooner. But it will give us opportunity to prepare for what ies ahead.  If life's greatest certainty is death, wouldn't it be foolish not to prepare for what lies beyond this life? Any life that leaves us unprepared for death is a wasted life. --Randy Alcorn (1954-    ) _The Law of Rewards_ [2003]

"Without Pietism, Protestantism might never have survived the eighteenth century, but with Pietism, it may ultimately cease to be Protestantism." -- Harold O. J. Brown

Quotes 17[ Jul

There is no need for concern over women's equality. We Bruderhof sisters think equality would come as a letdown No matter how you define equality you will find it never spells the love God. This is the kind of love that makes you want to go second mile, wash another's feet and other demeaning service that becomes coveted privilege in this upside down kingdom.- Anon Bruderhof sister

There is no other method of living piously and justly but depending upon God -Calvin

As soon as the sign itself meets our eyes the word also sounds in mine ears. - Calvin on Genesis 17

Give me unction in my gumption help me function. - 8nk

The church which is married to the spirit of the age will be all we do in the next . - Sean Inge

Quotes 16 Jul

Husbands love your wives! Even if it is hard. Christ never complains to the Father like Adam did “The woman Thou gavest me”, nor does he wish he were with someone else.- Gavin Beers, 19 June, Twitter

We live and die; Christ died and lived. —John Stott

To take a glimpse within the veil,
To know that God is mine,
Are springs of joy that never fail,
Unspeakable! divine!
John Newton@john__newton

"…it is possible to have the best intentions and ignore the cultural possessions of a people, and to preach the gospel pure and simple, without any application to their specific characteristics. History has shown that such a procedure is questionable...such a method does not take seriously enough the people to whom one speaks. God, in contrast, takes us, and those to whom we speak, very seriously, and as his ministers we ought to do the same. Abstract, disembodied and history-less sinners do not exist; only very concrete sinners exist, whose sinful life is determined and characterised by all sorts of cultural and historical factors… I must bring the gospel of God’s grace in Jesus Christ to the whole man, in his concrete existence, in his everyday environment. It is obviously then a great error on my part if I do not take a person’s culture and history seriously."
J. H. Bavinck, An Introduction to the Science of Missions (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1960), p. 81.

Character development always involves a choice, and
temptation provides that opportunity.  For instance,
God teaches us love by putting some unlovely people
around us.  It takes no character to love people who
are lovely and loving to you.

God teaches us real joy in the midst of sorrow, when
we turn to him.  Happiness depends on external
circumstances, but joy is based on your relationship
to God.

God develops real peace within us, not by making
things go the way we planned, but by allowing times
of chaos and confusion.  Anyone can be peaceful
watching a beautiful sunset or relaxing on vacation.
We learn real peace by choosing to trust God in
circumstances in which we are tempted to worry
or be afraid.

Likewise, patience is developed in circumstances
in which we're forced to wait and are tempted to be
angry or have a short fuse.  God uses the opposite
situation of each fruit to allow us a choice.

     --Rick Warren (1954-    )
      _The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 26,
      "Growing Through Temptation"

Quotes 14 Jul

The wonderland of God’s creation includes a masterpiece whose beauty more closely resembles the actual nature of God than anything else in the whole universe.
What is it?
You. —Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open

You may know God, but not comprehend him. --Richard Baxter (1615-1691) (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Knowing God")

If each spouse says to the other, "I will treat my selfishness as the main problem in the marriage," you have the prospect for great things.-TimothyKeller@timkellernyc

"Every person has the pull of two consistencies, the pull towards the real world, and the pull toward the logic of his system." ~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There http://dlvr.it/QYPm4L

Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. --Ambrose Bierce (1842-c. 1914)  _The Devil's Dictionary_ [1911]

Quotes 12 Jul

To be out of the hospital, to be out of the lunatic
asylum, to be out of prison, to be out of hell--do
we ever glorify God for these things?
     --C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 26 [1880]

We wept when we were born though all around us
smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all
around us weep.
     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 20 [1874]

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves,
it is because self-knowledge is painful and
we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
     --Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
      _The Perennial Philosophy_ [1946], Chapter 9

Television is talking heads discussing interminably what to do and seek to prove what they must ever doubt. -  Malcolm Muggeridge, Something beautiful for God.

The spiritual intention of the doctrine of creation relies solely in the assertion of the dependence of all existence upon the will of God. - William Temple

Quotes 11 Jul

An old man once said, "For a long period I puzzled
myself about the difficulties of Scripture, until at
last I came to the resolution that reading the Bible
was like eating fish.
"When I find a difficulty I lay it aside, and call
it a bone.  Why should I choke on the bone when
there is so much nutritious meat for me?  Some day,
perhaps, I may find that even the bone may
afford me nourishment."
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Feathers For Arrows_

Dry wells senders to the fountain. - Samuel Rutherford letter 154

For those who have hidden fellowship with God, life is a continual feast. - De Graff, Promise and deliverance,  volume three, Page 53

"Lust is rehearsing for a play in which you shouldn't have a part." - Milton Jones

We pursue egotistical and carnal in this world with an itch not even advancing years can  wholly cancel, yet recognise with delight a spirit that is detached itself for this purpose, for what we most want we must despise anyway.- Malcolm Muggeridge, Something beautiful for God.

Quotes 10 Jul

The greatest temptation out of hell is to live without temptation. If my waters should stand they would rot - Samuel Rutherford

"He who, struggling with his own weakness, presses toward faith in his moments of anxiety, is already in large part victorious." - John Calvin

Prayer is either a complete illusion or that which should take our breath away. - CS Lewis

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.”—Jerry Bridges

"View sin in the red glass of Christ's sufferings" —Thomas Watson

Quotes 9 Jul

The devil is the  master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons- - Samuel Rutherford letter 15

Everything which is concerned with the true knowledge of God is a gift of the holy spirit. - Calvin on 1 Corinthians 12:3

“Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.” -Watson

Whom God intends to destroy he gives them leave to play with scripture. - Martin Luther

Things are in the saddle and ride mankind. - Emerson

Quotes 7Jul

There are grounds for asserting that Scotland is the only European country with no history of the state persecution of Jews.- Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood, David Daiches

Independence?  That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. -"Henry Higgins" A character in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion_ [1913], Act 5)

It is undoubtedly the essence of baptism, incorporation into the body of Christ. - Calvin on ! Corinthians 12:13.

How can I love the being in me I am how can I not a lovely being who thou art. - unk Sufi.

Man's fundamental problem is an internal one.If nations want peace today they must understand the problem in essence is not a one of treaties, world organisation and international law. Peace must first of all be established by transforming man from within. The source of all evil or all injustice lies within us. - Kenneth Kaunda

Quotes 27 Jun

Faithful service in a lonely place is true spiritual greatness- David Jackman

We surely don't have anything as urgent as mañana in Ireland. - Stuart Banks

We are all familiar with "Jeroboam the son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin". It is all too easy to forget that the Old Testament also introduces us to "Rehoboam the son of Solomon"  who, accepting the counsel of his peers rather than exploring the wisdom of the past, lad Israel into disaster. - Sinclair Ferguson, Foreword to Reformation Worship, edited by Jonathan Gibson and Mark Earngey, Page xix

"Don’t demand that they [Christians] become like everyone else...here’s what you should do: Tell Christians to be true to their ideals but then critique them on those ideals and not someone else’s.”- Tim Keller's advice to UK parliamentarians at the National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast in Westminster Hall 17 Jun 2018

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God’s verdict.- John Calvin@JohnCalvinDaily

Quotes 6 Jul

Law can stop the results of a messed up heart, but it can’t stop whatever is causing the heart to be messed up.- Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc):

As the sharp winter storm in its face, grace withers without adversity. - Samuel Rutherford

"Some forms of homosexuality today are... not just homosexuality but a philosophic expression. One must have understanding for the real homophile’s problem. But much modern homosexuality is an expression of the current denial of antithesis. It has led in this case to an obliteration of the distinction between man and woman. So the male and the female as complementary partners are finished. This is a form of homosexuality which is a part of the movement below the line of despair. In much of modern thinking all antithesis and all the order of God’s creation is to be fought against — including the male-female distinctions. The pressure toward unisex is largely rooted here. But this is not an isolated problem; it is part of the world-spirit of the generation which surrounds us. It is imperative that Christians realize the conclusions which are being drawn as a result of the death of absolutes." -Francis Schaeffer, ("The God Who Is There", 1968)

The wisdom that is from above is not only pure, but peaceable and gentle; and the want of these qualifications, will spoil the savour and efficacy of our labours....'—John Newton

Quotes 5 Jul

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) _John Ploughman's Talk_ [1880]

‘If we wish to take care of ourselves properly, we would have to respect ourselves – but we don’t, because we are – not least in our own eyes – fallen creatures. It we lived in Truth; if we spoke the Truth – then we could walk with God once again, and respect ourselves, and others, and the world. We might strive to set the world straight. We might orient it towards Heaven, where we would want people we cared for to dwell, instead of Hell, where our resentment and hatred would eternally sentence everyone.’- Jordan Bernt Peterson  12 Rules for Life

Evangelicalism is the swimming baths. Most noise is at the shallow end. - John Blanchard.

But sincerity if I knew what sincerity meant. - Samuel Rutherford letter 281

The more we understand God’s sovereignty, the more our prayers will be filled with thanksgiving.
—R.C. Sproul

Quotes 4 Jul

Pangs go with birth, and anguish precedes success. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
 _Only A Prayer Meeting_ [2010]

We cannot see the risen Christ although he be walking with this unless he wills to disclose himself. - Leon Morris, New Testament commentary

True discrimination between right and wrong does not then depend on the acuteness of our intelligence but on the wisdom of the spirit. -  Calvin

There is no worse screen to block out the light than the spirit of confidence in our own intelligence - Calvin

An elastic ecclesiastic- John Blanchard

Quotes 2 Jul

Great accomplishments are often attempted but only
occasionally reached.  Those who reach them are
usually those who missed many times before.
Failures are only temporary tests to
prepare us for permanent triumphs.
     --Charles R. Swindoll (1934-    )
      (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
       of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Faith")

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up.
When you speak of hell, well, then your everyday
face will do.
     --C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892),
      _Lectures To My Students_ [1860]

We need to grow thus healthily independent of human
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]

None but those whose minds have been raised above the world by a taste of heavenly life really experience this perpetual and uninterrupted manifestation of the divine favour, which enables them to bear their chastisements with cheerfulness ~ John Calvin.
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Contrary to the message of our culture and the teaching of many in the church, Jesus does not put 'self' in front of actualisation but in front of denial. We will never become our trues selves unless we yield our all to him. We lose life to gain it.- Sam Allberry

Quotes 3 Jul

Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness is that none of his predictions have come ttue yet . - uni
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The breathtaking cave-in of so many evangelical churches and ministries to same-sex marriage and same-sex attraction exhibits the heavy price we are paying today for evangelicals' 200-year tendency to privilege redemption and de-privilege creation. Creational norms structure redemptive norms, not vice versa. The very fact that this view disturbs them reveals the depth of the problem.- P. Andrew Sandlin

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has no made a condition of salvation. - Machen

I can't hear what you're saying because what you're doing is speaking too loud .- unknown

I have long since come to believe that people never
mean half of what they say, and that it is best to
disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
     --Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
      _The Long Loneliness_ [19