Les chagrins et les épreuves sont comme le sable et le gravier qui polissent une pierre.
George V. Wigram
Sorrows and trials are like the sand and grit that polish a stone.
George V. Wigram
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George V. Wigram
Sorrows and trials are like the sand and grit that polish a stone.
George V. Wigram
A. B. Simpson
You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.
A. B. Simpson
Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness, 2012, p. 42-43.
When we violate our sense of right and wrong, even if the action in itself is not sinful, we are guilty of sin. “Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin” (Rom. 14:23). That means, if you don’t believe what you are doing is acceptable, then it’s not acceptable for you to do it. You must not ignore your conscience… Even if the Bible gives the green light, the red light in your conscience should not be transgressed.
Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness, 2012, p. 42-43.
Mark Dever et Paul Alexander
When the Gospel enables us to live in love, even though we may have nothing else in common save Christ, it is a testimony to its power to transform a group of sinful, self-centered people into a loving community united by a common relationship with Jesus Christ.
Mark Dever and Paul Alexander
François Fénelon
I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.
Francois Fenelon
John Newton
The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He kindled it and he keeps it alive; and because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it.
John Newton
Walter Chantry, The Shadow of the Cross - Studies in Self-Denial, 1981, p. 28-29.
There are no easy steps to witnessing! No painless, unembarrassing methods! You must bring men to see that they are filthy sinners under the wrath of God who must flee to Christ for mercy. That is offensive. And there is no way to coat it with honey.
Walter Chantry, The Shadow of the Cross – Studies in Self-Denial, 1981, p. 28-29.
Auteur inconnu
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Unknown author
James H. Aughey
There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them.
James H. Aughey
Gérard Chrispin, La résurrection, un trésor méconnu, page 65
C.S. Lewis
It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.
C.S. Lewis
Chuck Swindoll
In vain I have searched the Bible, looking for examples of early believers whose lives were marked by rigidity, predictability, inhibition, dullness, and caution. Fortunately, grim, frowning, joyless saints in Scriptures are conspicuous by their absence. Instead, the examples I find are of adventurous, risk-taking, enthusiastic, and authentic believers whose joy was contagious even in times of full trial. Their vision was broad even when death drew near. Rules were few and changes were welcome. The contrast between then and now is staggering.
Chuck Swindoll
William Tiptaft
Deliver us from everything that may entangle our affections and harden our hearts.
William Tiptaft
Robert Murray McCheyne
As long as the Spirit dwells in my heart, He deadens me to sin, so that, if lawfully called through temptation, I may reckon upon God carrying me through. But when the Spirit leaves me, I am like dry gunpowder.
Robert Murray McCheyne
J.D. Greear, Gaining by Losing, Zondervan, 2015, p. 122.
Our works don’t replace the verbal preaching of the gospel, but in them we demonstrate, tangibly, the love and grace that we proclaim with our mouths. Effective gospel preaching is explaining with our words what we demonstrate with our lives. In our service, we make visible the invisible Christ.
J.D. Greear, Gaining by Losing, Zondervan, 2015, p. 122.
John Owen
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled." When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.
John Owen
Abraham Wright
In our addresses therefore unto God, let us so look upon him as a just God, as well as a merciful; and not either despair of or presume upon his mercy.
Abraham Wright
Kent Hughes
Satan knows that if he can get us to laugh at things we believe we would never do, our defenses will fall.
Kent Hughes
Matthew Henry
The devil visits idle men with his temptations. God visits industrious men with His favors.
Matthew Henry
Abraham Wright
We may be sure God will not be hard to be entreated of us, who himself hath appointed us such an intercessor, to whom he can deny nothing; and to that end hath appointed him to sit at his right hand to make intercession for us.
Abraham Wright