Quotes Nov 12

From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first to last. He that perishes chooses to perish; but he that is saved is saved because God has chosen to save him.-- Charles Spurgeon

"It's only our foolish generation (and I am using "foolish" in the same sense it has in Romans 1) that lives in a universe which is purely material, everything being reduced to mass, energy and motion. Thus we find that the Jews left the true God for false gods, just as the Greeks, the Romans, etc., had false gods, but they were not as far from the truth as our generation. Our generation has nobody at home in the universe, nobody at all. Eventually, let us understand this: only a personal comforter can comfort man who is personal, and only one Comforter is great enough: the infinite-personal God who exists- that is, the God of JudeoChristian Scripture. Only He is the sufficient Comforter."- Francis Schaeffer, Death in the City

Danger for charismatics: a high expectation of God speaking today, but which doesn’t translate into careful biblical exegesis.
Danger for conservatives: careful biblical exegesis, but which doesn’t translate into a high expectation of God speaking today through it. - Sam Allberry@SamAllberry

Music is one of the greatest gifts God has given us;
it is divine and therefore Satan is its enemy.  For
with its aid many dire temptations are overcome;
the devil does not stay where music is.
     --Martin Luther (1483-1546)
      (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
       of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Music")