Christian Quotation Of The Day

[FineLinen]

The true way to be humble is not to stoop till you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. -Phillips Brooks-

 

[FineLinen]

We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed! - A. J. Gossip-

 

[FineLinen]

While there is a wonderful simplicity in God, much about Him has been obscured by the traditions of men. We are surrounded with things difficult to understand. The way most people take is to look away, lest they should find out they have to understand them. -George MacDonald-

Light

http://www.ccel.org/m/macdonald/unspoken3/unspoken3.htm

 

[FineLinen]

When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is the worst passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it. History also furnishes us with instances of persons of great piety and devotion who have fallen into great delusions and deceived both themselves and others. The occasion of their fall was this.....They considered their whole nature as the subject of religion and divine graces; and therefore their religion was according to the workings of their whole nature, and the old man was as busy and as much delighted in it as the new. -Wm. Law (Christian Regeneration)-

The purpose of the cross is to do away with you; blessed riddance! -A.W. Tozer-

 

[FineLinen]

"If men would have something to do with their hearts and their thoughts, that are always rolling up and down (like men with oars in a boat), after sinful vanities, they might find great and sweet employment to their thoughts upon Christ. If those frothy, fluctuating, and restless hearts of ours would come all about Christ, and look into His love, to bottomless love, to the depth of mercy, to the unsearchable riches of His grace, to inquire after and search into the beauty of God in Christ, they would be swallowed up in the depth and height, length and breadth of His goodness." -Samuel Rutherford-

When I am in the cellar of affliction I look for the Lord's choicest wines. -Samuel Rutherford-

 

[brinny]

For Real.....?

"I can soooo relate to David. Amazing that we forget our condition. And what might that be? This one: For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. ~Psalm 109:22 ......We all are frail. We stumble. We fall. We die. We return to the dust from whence we came. Surreal? Hopefully not. It's as real as the next funeral we attend.

For real."

~brinny

 

[FineLinen]

While there is a wonderful simplicity in God, much about Him has been obscured by the traditions of men. We are surrounded with things difficult to understand. The way most people take is to look away, lest they should find out they have to understand them. -George MacDonald-

Light

http://www.ccel.org/m/macdonald/unspoken3/unspoken3.htm

 

[psalms 91]

wonderful words

 

[tqpix]

Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. -- Leviticus 19:29

 

[brinny]

Where's this thread been hiding?

 

[brinny]

"If one detects sadness or suffering in another, they have just received an assignment. It is to uplift the other and to alleviate the suffering." ~brinny

 

[FineLinen]

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts. -A.W. Tozer-

"We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a 'paper pope.' The Bible is only the result of the Word of God. We can experience the return of the Word of God in the here and now, the perpetual return of the actual living, indisputable Word of God that makes possible the act of witnessing, but we should never think of the Bible as any sort of talisman or oracle constantly at our disposal that we need only open and read to be in relation to the Word of God and God Himself."

-Jacques Ellul (Living Faith: Belief & Doubt In A Perilous World)

 

[FineLinen]

"By his creation, then, each man is isolated with God; each, in respect of his peculiar making, can say, “my God;” each can come to him alone, and speak with him face to face, as a man speaketh with his friend. There is no massing of men with God. When he speaks of gathered men, it is as a spiritual body, not a mass. For in a body every smallest portion is individual, and therefore capable of forming a part of the body." -Geo. MacDonald-

Each of us is a distinct flower or tree in the spiritual garden of God,—precious, each for his own sake, in the eyes of him who is even now making us,—each of us watered and shone upon and filled with life, for the sake of his flower, his completed being, which will blossom out of him at last to the glory and pleasure of the Great Gardener. -George MacDonald-

http://www.ccel.org/m/macdonald/unspoken1/htm/vi.htm

 

[FineLinen]

If those frothy, fluctuating, and restless hearts of ours would come all about Christ, and look into His love, to bottomless love, to the depth of mercy, to the unsearchable riches of His grace**, to inquire after and search into the beauty of God in Christ, they would be swallowed up in the depth and height, length and breadth ** of His goodness. -Samuel Rutherford-

[move]God is an infinite, fathomless depth of never-ceasing love. -Wm. Law-[/move]

http://insearchofacity.homestead.com/files/lawindex.html

 

[soda]

I want to fall in love with you - love song for a savior - jars of clay

 

[psalms 91]

walk in the spirit and worship in truth.

 

[FineLinen]

Free moral agency is an expression of human invention and to talk of the freedom of man is flatly to repudiate his spiritual ruin. Nowhere does Scripture speak of freedom or the ability of the sinner, on the contrary, it insists on his moral and spiritual inability. -A.W. Tozer-

 

[brinny]

"We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a 'paper pope.' The Bible is only the result of the Word of God. We can experience the return of the Word of God in the here and now, the perpetual return of the actual living, indisputable Word of God that makes possible the act of witnessing, but we should never think of the Bible as any sort of talisman or oracle constantly at our disposal that we need only open and read to be in relation to the Word of God and God Himself."

-Jacques Ellul (Living Faith: Belief & Doubt In A Perilous World)

Amen.

 

[psalms 91]

very good

 

[FineLinen]

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. "No man can come to Me except the Father...draw him." This prevenient drawing takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming. -Aiden W. Tozer-

True prayer begins in the heart of God and is shared by those He lifts into His Presence to Him in His intention! Lord, teach us to pray!