Howard Hendricks (answering the question, “Do you have any words of wisdom for our graduates?”): Don’t believe your press reports. It bothers me that many students go out and are successful, which is the beginning of their failure. They believe that it’s them, when it’s not. This is why I would say to someone, ‘Use […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Graduation (Hendricks)Richard Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest: He that makes not God his chief good and ultimate end, is in heart a pagan and a vile idolater. Let me ask, then, dost thou truly account it thy chief happiness to enjoy the Lord in glory, or dost thou not? Canst thou say, “The Lord is my […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Heaven (Baxter)John Bunyan, All Loves Excelling: He that would know the love of Christ in several degrees of it, must begin at his person, for in him dwells all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Nay, more; in him ‘are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge’ (Col. 2:3). In him, that is, in his […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Christ (Bunyan)Elizabeth Elliott: Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
Read More Today’s Quote – Christ’s Authority (Elliott)Tim Challies, The Spiritual Discipline of Discernment: It must be noted that while Scripture does not explicitly forbid self-forgiveness, it also does not require or endorse it. It seems, then, that we do not need to forgive ourselves, nor should we make this our practice. If we struggle with guilt or shame, forgiving ourselves may […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Forgiveness of Self (Challies)John Piper, Battling Unbelief: …one powerful way of overcoming bitterness and revenge is to have faith in the promise that God will settle accounts with our offenders so that we don’t have to.
Read More Today’s Quote – Forgiveness (Piper)Tim Challies, The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment: Richard Phillips writes, “Theology bores today’s Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself.
Read More Today’s Quote – Theology (Challies)Jonathan Edwards (The End for Which God Created the World; in God’s Passion for His Glory): …the glory of God is the ultimate end of the work of redemption, which is the chief work of providence towards the moral world, as is abundantly manifest from Scripture. For the whole universe is put in subjection to […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Redemption (Edwards)Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Every little that [the Saints, contented men] have is but as an earnest [guarantee] for all the glory that is reserved for them; it is given them by God as the forerunner of those external mercies that the Lord intends for them.
Read More Today’s Quote – Spiritual Blessings (Burroughs)Lewis Sperry Chafer, Chafer’s Systematic Theology: As all these blessings indicated, salvation is a work of God for man, not a work of man for God. What a Christian experiences is what God’s love has prompted Him to do for those who had no merit before Him but who are now recognized in the merit […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Spiritual Blessings (Chafer)John MacArthur, A Tale of Two Sons: The typical sinner wants out of the morass of sin, and his first instinct is to devise a plan. He will work off his guilt. He will reform himself. But such a plan could never succeed. The debt is too great to repay, and the sinner is helpless […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Gospel (MacArthur)John Calvin, in Let Christ Be Magnified: The Word of God teaches so clearly, that it enlightens at the first glance. It must penetrate to the very bottom of your hearts. It is not enough to feel a few slight stings and pricks; you must be wounded, pierced through and through by the Word; and […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Scripture (Calvin)Theodore Cuyler, God’s Light on Dark Clouds: Never has [God] promised us an easy road or a smooth road, or such a road as our selfishness may select. He never consents that the flock shall decide as to the lot in which they shall be pastured, or over what deep hills he shall conduct them, […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Trials (Cuyler)Theodore Cuyler, God’s Light on Dark Clouds: Heaven will have no ‘moving day’. No longer shall we be pulled away from associations which we love, and sent off into strange and uncongenial places. When you and I, brother, have packed up at the tap of death’s signal-bell, we shall never be obliged to change our […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Heaven (Cuyler)John Piper, in Preaching the Cross: God did not ordain the cross of Christ or create the lake of fire in order to communicate the insignificance of belittling his glory. The death of the Son of God and the damnation of unrepentant human beings are the loudest shouts under heaven that God is infinitely holy, […]
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