Dear Friends,
It’s been a while since I’ve posted some “Quotes to Note.” Here are a few that I pray will encourage and challenge you…
“Even to your old age and grey hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.”
ISAIAH 46:4 NIV
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now
and what you want most.”
“Plan for gradual improvement, not spectacular leaps. A slow and steady stream of water will, in time, erode the hardest rock.”
JOHN CAMPBELL, Ph.D.
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
ARISTOTLE
“How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.”
ANNIE DILLARD
“Most people spend their lives indefinitely preparing to live.”
“The focus of your morning should be preparation.
The focus of your evening should be reflection.”
“Life is too short, eternity is too long, and the stakes are too high to waste our years on things that ultimately don’t matter.”
JOHN PIPER
“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 where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be. Man claims prerogatives that belong to God alone; God accepts penalties that belong to man alone.”
JOHN STOTT (FROM THE CROSS OF CHRIST)
“We are more sinful and flawed than we ever dared believe, yet more loved and accepted in Jesus than we ever dared hope.”
TIM KELLER
“The same Bible that tells us to ‘rejoice always’ has a book called Lamentations. We don’t have to choose one from the other. Good, healthy Christian faith is non-dualistic, able to hold multiple tensions together.”
RICH VILLODAS
“It is impossible to be increasing in our love for God and simultaneously increasing in our contempt for others. When our speech is saturated with contempt, our hearts are revealed.”
JEN WILKIN
“What is chaotic to you is
controlled by your Savior.
What is confusing to you is
understood by your Lord.”
PAUL TRIPP
“Your ability to be non-reactive to highly reactive people is a good measure of your progress as a mature adult and follower of Jesus.”
RICH VILLODAS
“Christianity is not just intellectually defensible but also intellectually satisfying at the deepest of levels. Yes, we believe God with our hearts. But we can also enjoy him with our minds.”
MICHAEL KRUGER
“Summing it all up, friends,
I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds
and meditating on things
true,
noble,
reputable,
authentic,
compelling,
gracious –
the best, not the worst;
the beautiful, not the ugly;
things to praise, not things to curse.
Put into practice what you learned, what you heard and saw and realized.
Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.”
PHILIPPIANS 4:8-9 (THE MESSAGE)
Four Exceptional Biographies
My favorite subject to read is biography and history.
Here are four new biographies about four of the most prolific evangelical authors of the past 50 years. All of the books were published this year and I really enjoyed reading about (and learning from) each individual’s life.
If you enjoy biography, I’d encourage you to pick one up.
- A Burning in my Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message by Winn Collier
- Where the Light Fell by Philip Yancey
- Becoming Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn
- R.C. Sproul: A Life by Stephen J. Nichols
Tremendous! Thank-you for sharing!