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[McWilliams]

Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last. —Charles Spurgeon

 

[cubanito]

"The only worth that money has is the faith that people put in it." -- Any economics textbook

JR

 

[inchristalone221]

I don't know if it has been said already, but no reformed quote list is complete without this:

"Unless I am convinced by scripture and plain reason, and not by popes and councils who have so often contradicted each other, my conscience is captive to the word of God. To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Therefore I cannot, and I will not, recant a single word of what I have written. Here I stand, for I can do no other, God help me."

--Martin Luther before the Diet of Worms

 

[inchristalone221]

Oh, and gotta have these too:

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

All John Calvin I love that guy.

*Edited for readability*

 

[McWilliams]

What is God's remedy for dejection at apparent failure in our labours? This—the assurance that God's purpose cannot fail, that God's plans cannot miscarry, that God's will must be done. Our labours are not intended to bring about that which God has not decreed. —Arthur W. Pink

 

[Hackett]

What is God's remedy for dejection at apparent failure in our labours? This—the assurance that God's purpose cannot fail, that God's plans cannot miscarry, that God's will must be done. Our labours are not intended to bring about that which God has not decreed. —Arthur W. Pink

Excellent!! Thanks for that one.

 

[McWilliams]

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes. —Thomas Watson

 

[McWilliams]

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him. —Jonathan Edwards

 

[heymikey80]

not an unconcerned sitting of God in heaven, where He only observes what's done in the world; but an all-active and all-concerned seatedness on His throne above, where He governs the world He has made, Himself. -- John Calvin

 

[McWilliams]

As idle talk is often concealed under the garb of jesting, and wit, the Apostle Paul expressly condemns pleasantry, which is so agreeable as to seem a praiseworthy virtue, as a part of foolish talking (Eph. 5:4). —John Calvin

 

[Hackett]

“Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.”

John Bunyan

 

[McWilliams]

The righteous dread sin more than hell, and wrong is more terrible to them than any punishment which awaits it. The joy of salvation to us is that we are delivered from this present evil world, delivered from the lusts of the flesh, delivered from the old death of natural corruption, delivered from the power of Satan, and from the dominion of evil. Our salvation will not be full till we are totally and finally delivered from every trace of sin, and are "without fault before the throne of God." Sanctification completed is our salvation perfected: purity without spot will be our Paradise Regained.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

[edie19]

The Bible assumes that every rational human being knows the existence of God, therefore it simply states in its opening line: "In the beginning God"
A.W. Tozer​

 

[edie19]

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship with God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.
Francis Schaeffer

 

[GrinningDwarf]

This one was mentioned in a Yahoo group I'm in:

"Although tradition does not rule our interpretation, it does guide it. If, upon reading a passage, you have come up with an interpretation that has escaped the notice of every other Christian for two thousand years, or has been championed by universally recognized heretics, chances are pretty good that you had better abandon your interpretation.” (RC Sproul, The Agony of Deceit, p35)

 

[McWilliams]

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take 'God' out of
the Pledge of Allegiance?"

 

[edie19]

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take 'God' out of
the Pledge of Allegiance?"

well darn (again)

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to McWilliams again.

 

[Hackett]

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Epicurus[/FONT] [FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF][/FONT]

 

[McWilliams]

"True union makes a true Christian: many close with Christ, but it is upon their own terms; they take and own him, but not as God offers him. The terms upon which God in the gospel offers Christ, are, that we shall accept of a broken Christ with a broken heart, and yet a whole Christ with the whole heart. A broken Christ with a broken heart, as a witness of our humility; a whole Christ with a whole heart, as a witness of our sincerity. A broken Christ respects his suffering for sin; a broken heart respects our sense of sin; a whole Christ includes all his offices; a whole heart includes all our faculties. Christ as King, Priest, and Prophet, and as a Mediator. Without any one of these offices, the work of salvation could not have been completed."; "MATTHEW MEAD"

 

[Hackett]

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Indira Gandhi[/FONT] [FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF][/FONT]