Eve was compelled to assume the equal ultimacy of the minds of God, of the devil, and of herself. And this surely excluded the exclusive ultimacy of God. This therefore was a denial of God’s absoluteness epistemologically. Thus neutrality was based upon negation. Neutrality is negation. (italics in original). – Cornelius Van Til, A Survey of Christian Epistemology, 21. …
Category: Quote for the Day
Westcott and Hort’s insistence that the text of the New Testament was not altered in any material respect from doctrinal motives was made in the face of the fact that this was one of the primary reasons given by the early Fathers for changes in the text. – Harry A. Sturz, The Byzantine Text-Type and New Testament Textual Criticism, 120 n.11. …
The highest object this earth has ever witnessed; a Divine-human personality. – J. J. Van Oosterzee, The Image of Christ, 144. …
Fear is as an armed man at the gate, which stops every one from entering, that is unfit. – Joseph Caryl, Practical Observations on Job, 1.32 …
Anything that teaches us what sin really is is half our salvation. – Alexander Whyte, The Walk, Conversation and Character of Jesus Christ, 27. …
The Lord requires that the glory of His divinity remain whole and uncorrupted not only in outward confession, but in His own eyes, which gaze upon the most secret recesses of our hearts. – John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2.8.16 (I.329). …
Get often into the mount of divine contemplation, and there look upwards unto heaven and think with yourselves, “Yonder, yonder, above the shining sun, is the more glorious Sun of righteousness. There, at the right of the throne of God, is my beloved Jesus, the Son of God, seated and, though He is so high above me, both in place and dignity, yet He thinks upon me, and pleads for me, and many a gift has He sent and, by …
Choosing for the Lord always means making a choice that excludes every other possibility. – Jochen Douma, The Ten Commandments: Manual for the Christian Life, 18. …
Neither inner devotion nor global evangelism nor social concern will long survive on a Christian basis where sound theology does not govern one’s commitments of truth and life. – Carl F. H. Henry, God, Revelation and Authority 1.199. …
How delightful to discuss and to talk about these things [theology, etc.]. What is more enjoyable than this? But it can lead to nothing – nothing at all – if we are not ever mindful of the fact that it is merely the means provided by God to bring us to a knowledge of Himself. – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors, 51. …
