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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion." —Martin Luther[/FONT]

 

[McWilliams]

"Let no man flatter himself: of himself he is a devil: his happiness he owes entirely to God. What have you of your own but sin? Take your sin which is your own; for righteousness is of God ... Why presume so much on the capability of nature? It is wounded, maimed, vexed, lost. The thing wanted is genuine confession, not false defense...When any one knows that he is nothing in himself, and has no help from himself, the weapons within himself are broken, and the war is ended. - Augustine, De Natura et Gratia

 

[McWilliams]

"How may I know I'm elect? First, by the Word of God having come in divine power to the soul so that my self-complacency is shattered and my self-righteousness is renounced. Second, by the Holy Spirit convicting me of my woeful, guilty, and lost condition. Third, by having had revealed to me the suitability and sufficiency of Christ to meet my desperate case and by a divinely given faith causing me to lay hold of and rest upon Him as my only hope. Fourth, by the marks of the new nature within me - a love for God; an appetite for spiritual things; a longing for holiness; a seeking after conformity to Christ. Fifth, by the resistance which the new nature makes to the old, causing me to hate sin and loathe myself for it. Sixth, by avoiding everything which is condemned by God's Word and by sincerely repenting of and humbly confessing every transgression. Failure at this point will surely bring a dark cloud over our assurance causing the Spirit to withhold His witness. Seventh, by giving all diligence to cultivate the Christian graces and using all diligence to this end. Thus the knowledge of election is cumulative." A.W. Pink

 

[Hackett]

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

 

[SpringTime]

Here is another from Chesterson

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-G.K. Chesterton[/FONT]

 

[Hackett]

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Charles H. Spurgeon

 

[McWilliams]

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare

 

[Hackett]

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Benjamin Franklin[/FONT]
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[McWilliams]

"The regenerate may walk carnally, and the unregenerate can be very respectable and religious. It is the crises of life which reveal the secrets of our hearts and make it manifest whether we are really new creatures in Christ or merely whitewashed worldlings!"
A.W. Pink, The Life of Elijah, pg 129

 

[UncleDudley]

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain

 

[cygnusx1]

WORLD ?



B. B. Warfield :

‘Persist in reading the text thus distributively, making "the world" mean each and every man that lives on the earth, and what, after all, does it declare that the love of God has done for them? Just open a way of salvation before men, give them an opportunity to save themselves...Is this, then, the measure of the immeasurable love of God – that He barely opens a pathway to salvation before sinful men, and stops right there; does nothing further for them – leaving it to their own unassisted initiation whether they will walk in it or not? Surely this cannot be the teaching of the text; and that, for many reasons, – primary among which is this: that we all know the love of God has done much more than this for multitudes of the children of men, namely, has not merely opened a way of salvation before them, but has actually saved them...God did not then only so love the world as to give it a bare chance of salvation: He so loved the world that He saved the world.’

 

[cygnusx1]

"But what is the love of God to which John 3:16 gives this prominence? Does it have reference to the elect only or to all men? Some have answered that its immediate purpose has to do with neither; because, they say, ‘the world’ here does not have numerical so much as ethical significance: it stands for ‘the evil, the darkness, the sinner’. God so loved those who are utterly contrary to himself that he gave his Son to die for them!
As B. B.Warfield has written on the love of God in this text: It is not that it is so great that it is able to extend over the whole of a big world: it is so great that it is able to prevail over the Holy God’s hatred and abhorrence of sin. For herein is love, that God could love the world – the world that lies in the evil one: that God who is all-holy and just and good, could so love this world that He gave His only begotten Son for it, – that He might not judge it, but that it might be saved. "


I Murray

 

[McWilliams]

"By the grace of God I am what I am"
1 Co 15:10
He remained silent a short time and then, as if speaking to himself, he said,
"I am not what I ought to be."
Ah! How imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be. I abhor that which is evil and I would cleave to that which is good.
I am not what I hope to be.
Soon, soon I shall put off mortality and with mortality all sin and imperfection.
Though I am not what I ought to be,
what I wish to be,
and what I hope to be,
Yet I can truly say,
I am not what I once was, a slave to sin and Satan;
I can heartily join with the apostle and acknowledge,
'By the grace of God, I am what I am!'​

 

[Hackett]

The whole worth of a kind deed is in the love that
inspires it.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-The Talmud[/FONT]
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[McWilliams]

Ancient Words
Holy words long preserved
For our walk in this world
They resound with God's own heart
O let the ancient words impart

Words of life, words of hope
Give us strength, help us cope
In this world, where'er we roam
Ancient words will guide us home

Chorus:
Ancient words, ever true
Changing me and changing you
We have come with open hearts
O let the ancient words impart

Holy words of our faith
Handed down to this age
Came to us through sacrifice
O heed the faithful words of Christ!

Martyrs' blood stains each page
They have died for this faith
Hear them cry through the years,
"Heed these words and hold them dear!"​

© 2001 Integrity's Hosanna! Music/ASCAP
c/o Integrity Media, Inc., 1000 Cody Road, Mobile, AL 36695

 

[graceabounding]

"There are fruits in God's garden as well as in man's which never seem to ripen till they are bruised." Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I love this thread!

 

[McWilliams]

I always find that the older saints become more Calvinistic as they ripen in age; that
is to say, they get to believe more and more that salvation is all of grace; and
whereas, at first, they might have had some rather loose ideas concerning free-will,
and the power of the creature, the lapse of years and fuller experience gradually blow
all that kind of chaff away. Charles Haddon Spurgeon


Wow!! I love that quote!! The chaff is blowing away!

 

[Hackett]

"No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened."
Charles H. Spurgeon

 

[edie19]

"There are fruits in God's garden as well as in man's which never seem to ripen till they are bruised." Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I love this thread!

I always find that the older saints become more Calvinistic as they ripen in age; that
is to say, they get to believe more and more that salvation is all of grace; and
whereas, at first, they might have had some rather loose ideas concerning free-will,
and the power of the creature, the lapse of years and fuller experience gradually blow
all that kind of chaff away. Charles Haddon Spurgeon


Wow!! I love that quote!! The chaff is blowing away!

"No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened."
Charles H. Spurgeon

Sometimes I wonder - as much as I admire and appreciate C.H. Spurgeon (and I do) will I (or anyone else for that matter) even consider him once we're in heaven. This man, so great a light to our very human eyes, will he be anything to us when we're in the presence of our Lord and Savior.

 

[McWilliams]

Good point edie! I too wonder if I will be even partly as interested then as now in all the apostles, puritans, reformers and other great saints that gave such light to our pathway! Guess there are no answers are there? I'd love to know the thoughts of others on this topic though!