“In Christ, mercy is sustained by justice, and justice satisfied by an act of mercy”
Charles Spurgeon
Category: Quotes
Our Faith
“It is humbling but also heartening to be told that our faith is not our independent contribution to our salvation but is rather God’s gracious gift.”
Dennis E. Johnson
Private Worship
“The vitality and genuineness of corporate worship is to a large degree dependent upon the vitality of our individual private worship. If we aren’t spending time daily worshiping God, we’re not apt to contribute to the corporate experience of worship. If we aren’t worshiping God during the week, how can we expect to genuinely participate in it on Sunday morning?” Richard Sibbes
Richard Sibbes
Pleasing to Him
“The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God’s own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him.”
R.C. Sproul
Right or Wrong
“A man who is born again does not use the world’s opinion as his standard of right or wrong.”
J.C. Ryle
Stripped
“Everyone wants to be clothed with power but no one wants to be stripped of self.”
Leonard Ravenhill
Rightly Possessed
“When the soul is rightly possessed of Christ and of his excellency, it disdains that anything should come in competition with him.”
Richard Sibbes
No Fool
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
Jim Elliot