Quotes Nov 19

"Look at your Lord hanging, look at him hanging, and giving you a directive from that kind of judicial bench which is the cross. Look at him hanging there, and concocting a medicine for you in your illness from his own blood. Look at him hanging there." Augustine

"The Jews always looked back to this work that God had done in space and time, and therefore they were linked to something that was tough enough to bear the weight of life, for they knew that God was not far away. Their affirmation was not just a poetic expression. Since God had acted in past history, the people knew they could trust Him for the future." ~ Francis Schaeffer, No Little People, No Little Places, commentary on Ps. 136:1-4.

I shouldn’t complain. My trials are fewer than my sins. - Joshua D Jones@BlueCheezWhisky

As soon as Christianity began to compromise learning, culture and political life with pagan and humanistic philosophy, with its view of state and culture, Christianity's inner strength has broken. At that moment the process of becoming 'like unto the world began', repeatedly arrested through the grace of God by a spiritualreveil, a Reformation. - introduction to The christian idea of the state, Herman Dooyeweerd, p3