“We do marriage according to Dr. Phil, raise our children according to Dr. Spock, govern our sex lives according to Dr. Ruth, and only run to Dr. Jesus when things get so bad we can’t find another doctor to help us.”
Voddie Baucham
Category: Quotes
Part With Nothing
“God would have us part with nothing for him, but that which will damn us if we keep it.”
Thomas Watson
Crowned with Roses
“Would we be part of Christ’s mystical body and not be like him? His life, as Calvin says, was a series of sufferings, ‘a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.’ He wept and bled. Was his head crowned with thorns, and do we think to be crowned with roses? It is good to be like Christ, though it be by sufferings.”
Thomas Watson
Final Decision
“If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.”
R.C. Sproul
Sore Trials
“If God does not give you that which you like he will give that which you need. A physician does not so much study to please the taste of the patient, as to cure his disease. We complain that very sore trials lie upon us; let us remember that God is our Physician, therefore he labors rather to heal us than to humor us.”
Thomas Watson
God’s Giving
“No sinner was ever saved by giving his heart to God. We are not saved by our giving, we are saved by God’s giving.”
A.W. Pink
Vessels of Honor
“No vessel can be made of gold without fire; so it is impossible that we should be made vessels of honor, unless we are melted and refined in the furnace of affliction.”
Thomas Watson
Exercise
“We are cold when it comes to rejoicing in God! Hence, we need to exercise ourselves in it and employ all our senses in it – our feet, our hands, our arms and all the rest – that they all might serve in the worship of God and so magnify Him.”
John Calvin