Christian Quotation Of The Day

[RollTideRyan]

"We must be doing something right,
or the enemy wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop us."

I love that one. So great and true.
Ryan

 

[FineLinen]

...Nothing can be lost that is not first owned. Just as a parent is compelled by civil law to be responsible for his family and his property, so the Creator--by His own divine law--is compelled to take care of the children He has created. And that means not only caring for the good children, but for the bad ones and lost ones as well. So the word lost came to be for Mrs. Smith (Hannah W. Smith), a term of greatest comfort. If a person is a "lost sinner" it only means that he is temporarily separated from the Good Shepherd who owns him. The Shepherd is bound by all duties of ownership to go after all those who are lost until they are found.

-Catherine Marshall- Beyond Ourselves

 

[FineLinen]

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God. To uphold a lie for God’s sake is to be against God, not for him...But where an evil thing is invented to explain and account for a good thing, and a lover of God is called upon to believe the invention or be cast out, he needs not mind being cast out, for it is into the company of Jesus.[...Where there is no ground to believe that God does a thing except that men who would explain God have believed and taught it, he is not a true man who accepts men against his own conscience of God. I acknowledge no authority calling upon me to believe a thing of God, which I could not be a man and believe right in my fellow-man. I will accept no explanation of any way of God which explanation involves what I should scorn as false and unfair in a man.If you say, That may be right of God to do which it would not be right of man to do, I answer, Yes, because the relation of the maker to his creatures is very different from the relation of one of those creatures to another, and he has therefore duties toward his creatures requiring of him what no man would have the right to do to his fellow-man; but he can have no duty that is not both just and merciful.

More is required of the Maker, by his own act of creation, than can be required of men. More and higher justice and righteousness is required of him by himself, the Truth;—greater nobleness, more penetrating sympathy; and nothing but what, if an honest man understood it, he would say was right. -George MacDonald-

Justice -George MacDonald-

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

[move]More is required of the Maker, by his own act of creation, than can be required of men.[/move]

 

[linchen]

We don't need a big faith, but
a little faith in a Big God.

(can't remember the autor)

 

[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

Hi there Rockhead.....

Those who exalt free choice believe God must operate only within the sphere of our sovereignty. -George MacDonald-

 

[FineLinen]

"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-

 

[FineLinen]

God takes His best soldiers from the highlands of affliction.

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

Samuel Rutherford

http://www.puritansermons.com/ruth/ruthindx.htm

 

[FineLinen]

The essence of prayer does not consist in asking God for something but in opening our hearts to God, in speaking with Him, and living with Him in perpetual communion. Prayer is continual abandonment to God. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want; it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life. Prayer is not asking, but union with God. Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of our lives. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself, the Source of all life. The true spirit of prayer does not consist in asking for blessings, but in receiving Him who is the giver of all blessings, and in living a life of fellowship with Him. -Sadhu Sundar Singh-

 

[linchen]

To accept the will of God never leads to the miserable feeling that it is useless to strive anymore.

God does not ask for the dull, weak, sleepy acquiescence of indolence.
He asks for something vivid and strong.

He asks us to cooperate with Him, actively, willing what He wills, our only aim:

[pong] HIS GLORY ! HIS GLORY ! HIS GLORY ! [/pong]

Amy Carmichael

 

[FineLinen]

[move]
God loves, yea, is love. Therefore hell itself must be subservient to that love and must be an embodiment of it. -George MacDonald-[/move]

 

[FineLinen]

Part of receiving Christ's grace of revelation is an experience of judgement, for in the light of the truth we see the falseness of what we have become... -Eriugena-

"And so the great feast [at the end of time] will be ordered and celebrated, from which the substance of no man shall be rejected, for the substance was made by God; and to which the wickedness of no man shall be admitted, for the wickedness was not made by God. For our nature shall be purified, the vice shall be winnowed away, the grain, which is our substance, shall be stored, the stubble, which is sin, shall burn in the flame of the Divine Judgement, the places hid in darkness shall be illuminated, and God shall be seen as all in all."

Eriugena

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05519a.htm

 

[Moros]

Orthodox Christianity is clearly the tradition that was given us who are flesh and blood of the West—and it can be clearly seen in the Western Europe of the first ten centuries.… But it also happens that Orthodox Christianity is not merely a ‘tradition’ like any other, ‘a handing down’ of spiritual wisdom from the past; it is God’s Truth here and now—it gives us immediate contact with God such as no other tradition can do.

 

[FineLinen]

Quote:

'I have loved thee with an everlasting love.' You can never translate that word "everlasting" into English. It simply means that you have got into the spaceless, boundless realm, you have fallen out of time to where time is no more. You have gone out into that mysterious something where nothing can be taken hold of as tangible, it is all beyond you, beyond your grasp, beyond your calculation, beyond your power to cope with it and bring it into some kind of dimensions. That is the word: beyond you, beyond your time, beyond your world, beyond all your ways of thinking and working. 'I have loved thee with an everlasting, timeless, spaceless love.' Did you notice the alternative marginal reading to the phrase? 'Jehovah appeared of old unto me'? It is, 'from afar appeared unto me' - outside of our world altogether. He says, 'I have loved you with a love altogether outside your dimensions of time and space.' -T. Austin Sparks-

T. Austin Sparks

His Great Love

http://www.austin-sparks.net/englis..._great_love.htm

 

[FineLinen]

[move]Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. -William Law-[/move]

Repentance is but a kind of table-talk, till we see so much of the deformity of our inward nature as to be in some degree frightened and terrified at the sight of it. . . . A plausible form of an outward life, that has only learned rules and modes of religion by use and custom, often keeps the soul for some time at ease, though all its inward root and ground of sin has never been shaken or molested, though it has never tasted of the bitter waters of repentance and has only known the want of a Saviour by hearsay. But things cannot pass thus: sooner or later repentance must have a broken and a contrite heart; we must with our blessed Lord go over the brook Cedron, and with Him sweat great drops of sorrow before He can say for us, as He said for Himself: "It is finished." -William Law-

 

[FineLinen]

It is all of God or it is no good news at all. If man is free to resist, God is not free to act, for He is bound by man's freedom. If God is to be free to act, man must be bound by the will of God. There can be nothing harmful in such a bondage, since perfect freedom by definition is perfect obedience to perfect law, and "the law of the Lord is perfect" (Psalm 19:7). - Arthur Custance-

 

[FineLinen]

Unmitigated and eternal evil, really dethrones God, or at least shares his throne with him, which is equivalent to dethroning him. To say that evil is absolute and eternal, is to fully invest it with attributes peculiar to the God of glory, and thus to make the kingdom of darkness equal with God, at least in some respects. But this cannot be; at that rate there would be two supreme Beings, a good and a bad one, and each of them would eternally exist, and be eternal foes. To such a frightful conclusion does the doctrine of the endlessness of evil lead us; let those believe the ghastly thing who can!

Evil cannot exist forever!

 

[barb754]

A gem cannot be polished without friction; the child of God
cannot be perfected without adversity.

 

[FineLinen]

Unmitigated and eternal evil, really dethrones God, or at least shares his throne with him, which is equivalent to dethroning him. To say that evil is absolute and eternal, is to fully invest it with attributes peculiar to the God of glory, and thus to make the kingdom of darkness equal with God, at least in some respects. But this cannot be; at that rate there would be two supreme Beings, a good and a bad one, and each of them would eternally exist, and be eternal foes. To such a frightful conclusion does the doctrine of the endlessness of evil lead us; let those believe the ghastly thing who can! Evil cannot exist forever!

No Christian prays for endless sin and punishment. If God permits it, it must be good and right. Why not pray for it? All Christians pray for the salvation of sinners, and yet profess to believe it will never be accomplished in countless numbers. The first essential prayer is that it be in faith. The believer in the ultimate triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ over all sin and death believes in the successful outcome!

[move]For from Him everything comes, through Him everything exists, and in Him everything ends: Source, Guide and Goal of all that is, to whom be glory forevermore.[/move]

 

[FineLinen]

A gem cannot be polished without friction; the child of God
cannot be perfected without adversity.

Hi there Barb. That which we consider most precious, are all produced in extreme pressure, intense fire, and wounding. Gold, precious stones, and pure pearl find their source in that environment.

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

 

[FineLinen]

"I believe there is a great Creator, infinite in his attributes of wisdom, power, and mercy: that His name is Love. I believe He is a God of all justice, and that He will chasten every person whom He ever created sufficiently to reform him, in this world, or some other." -P.T. Barnum-