Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Jonathan Edwards
Category: Quotes
Aren’t Enough Martyrs
“If the Christian life has become the path of ease in the modern west, then corporate worship is the place of increasing entertainment. The problem is not a battle between contemporary worship music and hymns; the problem is that there aren’t enough martyrs during the week. If no soldiers are perishing, what you want on Sunday is Bob Hope and some pretty girls, not the army chaplain and a surgeon.”
John Piper
Entertainment
“The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And men who can’t lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.”
A.W. Tozer
Ordered Existence
The unceasing activity of the Creator, whereby in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
J.I. Packer
Heavenly Birth
“The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart’s happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead. That is where we begin, I say, but where we stop no man has yet discovered, for there is in the awful and mysterious depths of the Triune God neither limit nor end.”
A. W. Tozer
The Best
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us. We are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
C. S. Lewis
Faith
“Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.”
Oswald Chambers
Unalterable Purpose
“Everything that has moved or shall move in heaven, and earth, and hell, has been, is, and shall be according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God, fulfilling a holy, just, wise and unalterable purpose!”
Charles Spurgeon