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[Iosias]

“If we approach the OT Psalms with the question where one should look for and find the God of Israel whom the hymns and songs of thanksgiving glorify, on whom the laments call, and whom all the songs and poems involve, the unanimous, never doubted, and ceaselessly expressed answer is: Yahweh Sebaoth is present in the sanctuary in Jerusalem. Zion is the place of God’s presence.”

Kraus, H-J. (1988) Psalms 1-59. Fortress Press pp. 6

 

[McWilliams]

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one
has to do is hit the right keys at the right
time and the instrument plays itself"

—Johann Sebastian Bach

 

[country]

“The deeper I go into the gospel, the more I comprehend and confess aloud the depth of my sinfulness. A gruesome death like the one that Christ endured for me would only be required for one who is exceedingly sinful and unable to appease a holy God. Consequently, whenever I consider the necessity and manner of His death, along with the love and selflessness behind it, I am laid bare and utterly exposed for the sinner I am.

Such an awareness of my sinfulness does not drag me down, but actually serves to lift me up by magnifying my appreciation of God’s forgiving grace in my life. And the more I appreciate the magnitude of God’s forgiveness of my sins, the more I love Him and delight to show Him love through heart-felt expressions of worship.”
- Milton Vincent

 

[country]

“When they begin to live to Christ they begin to mourn. Every child of God is born again with a tear in his eye. Dry-eyed faith is not the faith of God’s elect. He who rejoices in Christ at the same time mourns for sin. Repentance is joined to faith by loving bands, as the Siamese twins were united in one.”
- Charles Spurgeon

 

[cygnusx1]

Regarding Romans 9:20-21, Luther wrote:

“God will have all men to be saved” (1 Timothy 2:4), and he gave his Son for us men, and he created man for the sake of eternal life. And likewise: Everything is there for man’s sake and he is there for God’s sake in order that he may enjoy him, etc. But this objection [to God’s sovereignty in salvation] and others like it can just as easily be refuted as the first one: because all these sayings must be understood only with respect to the elect [emphasis in original], as the apostle says in 2 Timothy 2:10, “All for the elect.” Christ did not die for absolutely all, for he says: “This is my blood which is shed for you” (Luke 22:20) and “for many” (Mark 14:24)- he did not say: for all- “to the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:28). [Martin Luther, Lectures on Romans, translated and edited by Wilhelm Pauck (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1961), 252.]

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[country]

“I believe that very much of current Arminianism is simply ignorance of gospel doctrine; and if people began to study their Bibles, and to take the Word of God as they find it, they must inevitably, if believers, rise up to rejoice in the doctrines of grace.”
- Charles H. Spurgeon

 

[McWilliams]

"One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others". anon

 

[McWilliams]

"Reading through Hosea helps us to see one of the great differences between God's people under the Old Covenant and God's people under the New. A person entered the Old Covenant community by being born. Not so for God's New Covenant community(which I say with much love for my paedo-baptist friends). A person enters the New Covenant by being born again by God's Spirit."

Mark Dever, The Message of the Old Testament, pg 682

 

[Gabriel]

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[oworm]

I like the quotes in my sig.

Welcome back Gabriel

 

[BBAS 64]

I like the quotes in my sig.

Welcome Back my Brother!!!

Bill

 

[McWilliams]

The raw material for a devil is an angel. The raw material for the son of perdition
was an apostle; and the raw material for the most horrible of apostates is one who is
almost a saint. Charles Spurgeon

 

[cygnusx1]

“One week-night, when I was sitting in the house of God, I was not thinking much about the preacher’s sermon, for I did not believe it. The thought struck me, ‘How did you come to be a Christian?’ I sought the Lord. ‘But how did you come to seek the Lord?’ The truth flashed across my mind in a moment – I should not have sought Him unless there had been some previous influence in my mind to make me seek Him. I prayed, thought I, but then I asked myself, How came I to pray? I was induced to pray by reading the Scriptures. How came I to read the Scriptures? I did read them, but what led me to do so? Then, in a moment, I saw that God was at the bottom of it all, and that He was the Author of my faith, and so the whole doctrine of grace opened up to me, and from that doctrine I have not departed to this day, and I desire to make this my constant confession, ‘I ascribe my change wholly to God’” (Charles H. Spurgeon, Autobiography, vol. 1, The Early Years, 1834-1859 [reprint ed.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1973], p. 165).

 

[Theognome]

"Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein

Theognome

 

[heymikey80]

"It is not because the Reformed Faith is interested in eliminating holiness and duty that it rejects all rules contrary or additional to the word of God. It is rather precisely because it recognizes ... the Christian's duty ... to do all to the glory of God. When man's duty is reduced from divine principles to human rules, it is falsified because it it reduced." G. I. Williamson

 

[Amylisa]

A favorite quote:

"Grace flows through truth."
Father John Corapi

 

[McWilliams]

"It is not heresy as much as silliness that is killing us softly."
Michael Horton in Christless Christianity

 

[The Princess Bride]

"Sometimes the best way to save face is by keeping the lower half shut."

 

[heymikey80]

Now the other myth that gets around is the idea that legislation cannot really solve the problem and that it has no great role to play in this period of social change because you’ve got to change the heart and you can’t change the heart through legislation. You can’t legislate morals. The job must be done through education and religion. Well, there’s half-truth involved here. Certainly, if the problem is to be solved then in the final sense, hearts must be changed. Religion and education must play a great role in changing the heart. But we must go on to say that while it may be true that morality cannot be legislated, behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me but it can keep him from lynching me ....

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[+Zero+]

'I don’t care how strong your religion is, or how strong your church life is, I don’t care how strong your morality is. On that day of judgment God will tear it down and it will wilt. Whenever humans declare themselves to be righteous they are doing it by contrasting themselves with other humans who are worse. And you can get away with that, but when your righteousness is contrasted with the righteousness of God there is nothing but to throw yourself down and declare your morality to be dung.' - Paul Washer