Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
Monday, October 17th, 2011
From Calvin's preface to the Geneva Bible. Pointed out to our Prolegomena class by Dr. Garner. Worth reading out loud... its kind of epic.
And even any good that could be thought or desired is found in this Jesus Christ alone.
For He humbled Himself to exalt us;
He made Himself a slave ...
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Bonhoeffer in Life Together:
Finally, one extreme thing must be said. To forego self-conceit and to associate with the lowly means, in all soberness and without mincing the matter, to consider oneself the greatest of all sinners. This arouses all the resistance of the natural man, but also that ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Calvin's Institutes, Book 1, Chapter 16, Section 4:
First, then, let the reader remember that the providence we mean is not one by which the Deity, sitting idly in heaven, looks on at what is taking place in the world, but one by which he, as it were, holds the helms and ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Piper describing George Whitefield's preaching, commenting on criticisms that Whitefield was merely "acting":
This was not a repressed acting. This was a released acting. It was not acting in the service of imagination. It was acting in the service of reality. This was not rendering the imaginary as real. It was ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Michael Oh:
My sister and I did well in school and we were tracking towards lucrative careers. We could have done anything. We could have been incredibly comfortable and recognized. Between my sister, my 2 brothers-in-law, my wife, and me, we have 15 undergraduate and graduate degrees. Eleven of the 15 ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
From page 182 of When People Are Big And God Is Small by Ed Welch:
Scott Peck, in his best-selling book, The Road Less Traveled, suggests that we can shape other people into host organisms. It is not a pretty picture: people are the intestine, we are the worm.
"I do ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Worth reading carefully:
The concept of substitution may be said, then, to lie at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
From pages 61-62 of Paul Tripp's Whiter Than Snow:
Here are the radical words I have been alluding to: "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10). I must admit that I don't always greet God's kingdom with delight. There are things that ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Do you know why I often ask Christians, "What's the biggest thing you've asked God for this week?" I remind them that they are going to God, The Father, the Maker of the Universe, The One who holds the world in His hands. What did you ask God for? Did ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to tell you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You may have been in a room ...
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