Jesus is so uniquely “the Way” that believers find the destination as soon as they find Him. They ‘arrive’ at God as soon as they step on to the Way of God. They do not find Jesus and then, at a later stage, find the Father. – Peter Lewis, The Glory of Christ, 103. …
Category: Quote for the Day
To be ‘led by the Spirit’ is to walk by the Spirit – to have the power to rebut the desire of the flesh, to be increasingly conformed to the likeness of Christ (2 Cor. 3:18), to cease to be under law. To be under law affords no protection against the desire of the flesh. ‘Spirit’ is equally opposed to ‘law’ as to ‘flesh’. To be led by the Spirit bring simultaneous deliverance from the desire of the flesh, the …
The reality of God as depicted in his revelation best explains why secular man refuses to order his life exclusively by the naturalistic worldlife view, while the fact of sin best explains why he refuses to order his life exclusively by the truth and will of God. – Carl F. H. Henry, God, Revelation and Authority, 1.148 …
We cannot honour God more than to believe His promises and build on Him. This will breed love, when we feel the comfort of the promises. Foolish men think to honour God by compliments, by dead performances…To God, it [is] to seal His truth, that thou shouldst not make Him a liar…Get faith. That will honour Him, and He will honour thy faith. – Richard Sibbes, Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1 (Works III, 408). …
“Writing in his Notes from Underground Dostoyevsky says of man, ‘If he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.'” – from Os Guinness, God in the Dark, 43. …
“The works of men in God’s worship steal away the heart” – William Greenhill, Ezekiel, 160. …
“No species of sin is more degrading to the intellectual and moral nature of man… They obscure the mind, they harden the heart, they pervert the affections. They unfit the mind for the exercises and the pleasures of [faith], and in their unhappy victim all the emotional part of our nature seems strangely converted into one depraved feeling of brutal selfishness.” – John Brown, The Discourses and Sayings of our Lord, 1.192. …
“Humility is the strength and ornament of all other graces; it is the food that nourisheth them; the soil in which they grow.” – Thomas Charles, Spiritual Counsels, 3. …
Do not think that there is only one way to devaluate the moral feeling of a particular era. There can be undermining of morals which obviously and blatantly denies the commandments of God and boldly proclaims unrestrained human liberty. But there can also be a refinement of evil which seems to propagate something very fine and good. In the latter case the danger is much greater than when evil is obvious to everyone. – G. C. Berkouwer, Modern Uncertainty and …
Sustaining orthodoxy and framing Christian belief in doctrinal terms requires habits of reflection and judgment that are simply out of place in our culture and increasingly are disappearing from evangelicalism as well. – David F. Wells, No Place For Truth, 173. …
