Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
– Leonard Ravenhill –
[Jesus was] the gathering up of all the loveliness of which only the Infinite mind of God could conceive.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The older I get, the more I am aware of my desperate need of Christ Himself. I want to listen and learn and glorify Him.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
[Jesus] accepted a decaying body so that decaying bodies might put on immortality.
– Athanasius –
The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have had dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?
– George Whitefield –
An evangelical believes that God humbled himself not only in the incarnation of the Son, but also in the inspiration of the Scriptures. The manger and the cross were not sensational. Neither are grammar and syntax. But that is how God chose to reveal himself. A poor Jewish peasant and a prepositional phrase have this in common; they are both human and both ordinary. That the poor peasant was God and prepositional phrase is the Word of God does not change this fact. Therefore, if God humbled himself to take on human flesh and to speak human language, woe to us if we arrogantly presume to ignore the humanity of Christ and the grammar of Scripture.
– John Piper –
He [Christ] is worthy of all the honor he gets in heaven, and of ten thousand times more than he gets on earth. His father cannot honor him more, for he has given him a name which is above every name, and has passed a decree, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
– James Smith –
How you give God time – how you make available your leisure – indicates to God your seriousness about Him. And the issue is not chronology, or the clock ticking away – that you gave 15 minutes or a half hour – the issue is a quality of spirit. How do you attend to the Lord in the use of that time?
– Art Katz –
What is the Church? The word signifies an assembly; the Church of Jesus Christ is an assembly of faithful men, the whole company of God’s Chosen, His called out ones, the entire community of true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. Wherever true Believers are, there is a part of the Church; wherever such men are not, whatever organization may be in existence, there is no Church of Jesus Christ. The Church is no corporation of priests, or confederacy of unconverted men—it is the assembly of those whose names are written in Heaven; any assembly of faithful men is a Church.
– Charles Spurgeon –