Christian Quotation Of The Day

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‘Can we possibly, without utter absurdity, maintain that there first existed in anyone the good virtue of a good will, to entitle him to the removal of his heart of stone? How can we say this, when all the time this heart of stone itself signifies precisely a will of the hardest kind, a will that is absolutely inflexible against God? For if a good will comes first, there is obviously no longer a heart of stone.’


Augustine, On Grace and Free Will, 29



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‘For we are now speaking of the desire for goodness. If they want to say that this begins from ourselves and is then perfected by God, let them see how they can answer the apostle when he says, “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” (2 Cor. 3:5)’




Augustine, Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, 2:18​

 

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[move]And the chapiters that were on top of the pillars were of lily work....[/move]

Oswald Chambers

God will use any number of extraordinary things to chisel the detail of His 'lily work' in His children. He will use people who are like hedgehogs. he will use difficult circumstances, the weather; He will use anything and everything, no matter what it is, and we shall always know when God is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

 

[Theresasjourney]

By these things examine thyself: By whose rules am I acting? In whose name? In whose strength? For whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial and love of God and to man have there been in my actions?

Anonymous

 

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The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from Hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness. -A.W. Pink-

 

[Theresasjourney]

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

A. W. Tozer

 

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A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

A. W. Tozer

"He that saves his life will destroy it, but he that destroys his life for My sake, shall save it."

 

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Oswald Chambers

"Redemption is the great outside fact of the Christian faith; it has to do not only with a man's experience of salvation, but with the basis of his thinking. The revelation of Redemption means that Jesus Christ came here in order that by means of His Death on the cross He might put the whole human race on a redemptive basis, so making it possible for every man to get back into perfect communion with God. 'I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.' What was finished? The redemption of the world. Men are no going to be redeemed; they are redeemed. 'It is finished.' It was not the salvation of individual men and women like you and me that was finished: the whole human race was put on the basis of Redemption.....We have to be faithful to God that through us may come the awakening of those who have not yet realized that they are redeemed."

 

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-G. Campbell Morgan-

My grace is sufficient for thee." Upon that great word many a weary head has rested; many wounded hearts have been healed by it; discouraged souls have heard its infinite music and have set their lives to new endeavor until they have become victorious. That stake in the flesh, that messenger of Satan, is in My grace. It is part of My method. The stake in the flesh is sent. The messenger of Satan is My messenger. That is not something that is against you, but for you. This hard and difficult and trying circumstance is not something outside My providence, My economy, which you must overcome with My help: it is of My purpose, it is My plan. I am high enthroned above all the powers of darkness, and to the trusting soul Satan himself is compelled to be a means of My grace. All your suffering is in My economy. I have poised in My own hand the weight of your burden and know it. Everything that is imposed upon you is under My control. "My grace is sufficient for thee." It is enough for you to know that what you are suffering is part of My discipline, evidence of My love. -G. Campbell Morgan-

 

[Theresasjourney]

A church that has passion is a church where discouraged folks cheer up, dishonest folks 'fess up, sour folks sweeten up, closed folk, open up, gossipers shut up, conflicted folks make up, sleeping folks wake up, lukewarm folk, fire up, dry bones shake up, and pew potatoes stand up! But most of all, Christ the Saviour of the entire world is lifted up.

Davon Huss

 

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Charles S. Price

The bells of my heart are ringing, because I know that my Lord is able to supply all our need. The storehouses of grace are filled to overflowing and the quantity is of such abundance, that it is inconceivable to these hearts and minds of ours. We deal with earthly temporal limits, while God deals with the illimitable and eternal. The measure of God's giving is always to overflowing....there is no end to His beneficence, and no lack in His inexhaustible supply. --Chas. S. Price-

Steve Wilber

[move]The breadbox of heaven cannot be exhausted - and you should see his pantry! [/move]

 

[Theresasjourney]

God is not like a earthly parent. His 'not yet' means just that, 'not yet' and not 'no'. Earthly parents sometimes lie with the words 'not yet', when they mean 'no', thinking they are being kind. God's 'yes' is always 'yes' and His 'no' is always 'no'. He does not forget His promises and makes no promises He will not keep.

Katherine Walden
I Lift My Eyes Web Ministries

 

[Theresasjourney]

Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining: everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but wholly...given up to God to be where and what and how He pleases.

William Law

 

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John Gavazzoni

What is translated as "wrath" in conventional translations cannot---as commonly believed---be an essential change of disposition on God's part toward man. God has only one disposition, one inclination, one divine posture in His relationship with man, that of unconditional love coming to us in unearned grace. He is determined to fully give Himself to us unreservedly. When one sees this, we become His bond slave, bound by such love.

 

[Theresasjourney]

You have been in the storms and swept by the blasts. Have they left you broken, weary, beaten in the valley, or have they lifted you to the sunlit summits of a richer, deeper, more abiding manhood and womanhood? Have they left you with more sympathy with the storm swept and the battle-scarred?

Anonymous

 

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You have been in the storms and swept by the blasts. Have they left you broken, weary, beaten in the valley, or have they lifted you to the sunlit summits of a richer, deeper, more abiding manhood and womanhood? Have they left you with more sympathy with the storm swept and the battle-scarred?

Anonymous

Awesome! Is it not interesting that what is considered the most precious and costly in our eyes, pure pearl, gold and silver and precious stones are all produced in intense pain, intense pressure and intense heat?

 

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Thomas Allin (Christ Triumphant)

Why all this stress is laid on man's will to ruin himself, rather than on God's will to save? Is man the pivot on which all hinges? To me it is bad philosophy, and worse theology, not to recognize God as Centre; and His will and purpose as supreme.

 

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-A. J. Gossip-

There are not four Gospels but five. There are the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and there is the Gospel according to a man's own experience -- and the fifth is the most important of all. It was not enough for the disciples to be able to tell Jesus what others said and thought of him. The basic and essential and all-important question was: 'You -- who do you say that I am?'

 

[cygnusx1]

"There was a presence in the room that couldn't have been anybody but Jesus.
I truly had a born-again experience, if you want to call it that....
It was a physical thing. I felt it all over me. I felt my whole body tremble."

Bob Dylan.​

 

[barb754]

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is
knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves
God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to
study the course of the stars.

-- Thomas à Kempis