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[cygnusx1]

"Hello"

 

[McWilliams]

"It is a prodigious mistake for us to think that we can have a reservoir of truth, filled once for all, and that without further effort, it will supply our needs all our days. If we ever think that we have attained to sufficient knowledge and can afford to rest upon our lees, we have already, at least in part, become the victims of the conceit that is Satan's deceit. It is only as we constantly replenish our minds and refresh our souls with the pure Word of God that we shall continue on the path of straight thinking and therefore of true orthodoxy!"
Prof. John Murray
Christian Orthodoxy
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April 2006

 

[GrinningDwarf]

Last week I picked up John Piper's God's Passion for His Glory. It is Piper's introduction to Jonathan Edwards' The End for which God Created the World. The first half is Piper's comments on Edwards and his writing, and Piper's personal journeys involving Edwards' writing. The second half is the complete text of Edwards' The End for which God Created the World, including Piper's notes on the text. Great stuff!! This is from Piper's footnotes on what Piper considers the key text:

I would encourage the reader to wrestle earnestly with this truth: “That the moral rectitude of…God CHIEFLY consists in a regard to HIMSELF, infinitely above his regard to all other beings.” This is a continental divide in theology. If you really believe this, all the rivers of your thinking run toward God. If you do not, all the rivers run toward man. The theological and practical implications are innumerable. Settling this issue is worth many nights of prayer and many months of study.

The bold is the Edwards text on which Piper is commenting, and it is so important in Piper's opinion that he considers the two paragraphs around it to have been "emormously important in (his) understanding of reality."

 

[Hackett]

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Fanny Jackson Coppin[/FONT]
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[Hackett]

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Alice Mackenzie Swaim[/FONT]
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[McWilliams]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Just as in the beginning "God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light' so, at the moment he appointed for our new birth, he said, "Let there be life' and there was life. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]- J. A. MOTYER[/FONT]

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

I was going through some old Tabletalk magazines and found this gem:

On the "What Would Jesus Do?" slogan: "Of course, the problem with this slogan is not the question -- it is a fine question. The difficulty is that we do not answer it biblically. We ask the question, but then the biblical answer comes back that just about now He would make approximately 150 gallons of fine Merlot wine for the wedding guests. We ignore this answer as being inconvenient for our traditions, and say that of course the Jesus 'we know' would never, ever drink alcohol. This is because we do not know Him according to His Word." -Doug Wilson

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

"The very fact that Muhammad loved cats and hated dogs is yet another sure sign that Islam is a false religion!" -Kim Riddlebarger

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity. Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, “What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.”

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[McWilliams]

"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end."—Daniel Webster

 

[cygnusx1]

"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end."—Daniel Webster

Excellent choice sister !!! ...... I remember that quote was on the back of many , if not all Baker Bookhouse paperbacks I used to buy years ago

and thankyou for you recent encouragements , they mean a lot to me .

Love
cygnus

 

[McWilliams]

Thanks Cyg! Actually I borrowed it from a new site I found recently! Check it out! Seem to be of like mind!

http://www.southwoodsbookstore.com/theology.htm

Blessings,

 

[Hackett]

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Leo Aikman[/FONT]
[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]Hummm...very thought provoking.[/FONT]

 

[McWilliams]

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

 

[Hackett]

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us...Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Mother Teresa[/FONT]
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[edie19]

"The new birth is entirely the work of God, and a man has been saved, generally, for a long time before he has the remotest idea of the nature of what has happened to him by the grace of God alone." -- D. Barnhouse

 

[Hackett]

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Thomas Jefferson[/FONT]
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[BBAS 64]

Dr. Martyn-Lloyd Jones

"The ignorant Arminian does not understand the difference between Calvinism and hyper-Calvinism."

 

[GrinningDwarf]

Dr. Martyn-Lloyd Jones

"The ignorant Arminian does not understand the difference between Calvinism and hyper-Calvinism."

Amen!! Amen!!

 

[Hackett]

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-C.S. Lewis [/FONT]