“Never doubt in the darkness what God has told you in the light.”
(Victor Raymond Edman)
“Brands are for cereals.
Platforms are for divers.
Market Shares are for retailers.
Towels and Basins are for Churches/Christians to wash feet.”
(Scotty Smith)
“Keep moving and have faith. This is when God usually works. Most of the time he does not give us the whole plan, the whole map, or even the end point. He just leads us, opening and closing doors as we go along. You won’t always see the next step, but if you keep moving, it will appear.”
(Dr. Henry Cloud)
“The church needs to build sturdy walls to keep out false teachers and attractive bridges to bring curious people in.”
(Kevin DeYoung)
“Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.”
(Julian of Norwich)
“Heaven will come soon enough. We’re here to serve. Give yourself away to this world. Every cost will be worth it.”
(John Piper)
“The doctrine of common grace is the teaching that God bestows gifts of wisdom, moral insight, goodness, and beauty across humanity, regardless of race or religious belief. James 1:17 says, ‘Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights.’ That is, God is ultimately enabling every act of goodness, wisdom, justice, and beauty – no matter who does it.”
(Tim Keller)
“The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.”
(Martin Luther)
“The person is considered righteous by God not on the basis of what one does, but on the basis of what Christ has done. The act of God that justifies the sinner cannot be undone. It’s forever. It is received by faith. It is by grace alone. No mediators but Christ himself.”
(Augustus Nicodemus)
“For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.”
(John 1:17 NASB)
“Living by grace, instead of by works, means that you are free from the performance treadmill. It means that God has already given you an ‘A’ when you deserved an ‘F’. He has already given you a full day’s pay, even though you may have only worked for an hour. It means you don’t have to perform certain spiritual disciplines to earn God’s approval. Jesus Christ has already done that for you. You are loved and accepted by God through the merit of Jesus, and you are blessed by God through the merit of Jesus. Nothing you will ever do will cause Him to love you any more or any less. He loves you strictly by His grace, given to you through Jesus.”
(Jerry Bridges – from Transforming Grace)
Augustine asks, “What does love look like?”
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others.
It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy.
It has the eyes to see misery and want.
It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men.
That is what love looks like.”
“Church history and empirical evidence attest to this. Christians engaged the culture without excessive compromise and remained separate from the culture without excessive isolation,’ wrote theologian Gerald L. Sittser, in an essay exploring how the early church flourished as a minority movement. “Christians figured out how to be both faithful and winsome. They followed what was then known as the ‘Third Way,’ a phrase that first appeared in a second-century letter to a Roman official named Diognetus.”
(“The Early Church Thrived Amid Secularism and Shows How We Can, Too,” Christianity Today)
“Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.”
(Jerry Bridges)
“It is impossible to be happy without humility. Unless we have a true sense of our insignificance in the wider scheme of things, unless we experience gratitude for the small blessings in life—the little graces that bring joy precisely because they are unearned and undeserved, we will never know joy. The more towering the façade of our own importance, the more shrunken is our capacity for happiness. Entitlement destroys the virtue best equipped to bring happiness—gratitude.”
(Trevin Wax – The Gospel Coalition)