Quotes 22 May

One sign that you identify more with your ideological tribe than you do with Jesus is that you cannot hear what’s good when it comes from another tribe. - Jonathan Leeman, How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age (Thomas Nelson, 2018)p.(182)

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?
     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 26 [1880]

An enlightened man is grateful to God for temporal
blessings; but he is much more grateful to God for
spiritual blessings, for temporal blessings do not
last long; they are soon gone.
Temporal blessings are not definite marks of divine
favour, since God gives them to the unworthy, and to
the wicked, as well as to the righteous.

     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 38 [1892]

The significance in giving thanks is that you know
that God can work out His plan--regardless of the
evil intentions or actions of others.  Nothing can
thwart His purpose for you.  Giving thanks positions
you to receive the fullest extent of His blessings.
     --Charles F. Stanley (1932-    )
      _In Touch_ [March 1990]