Tim Keller
Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
Tim Keller
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Tim Keller
Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
Tim Keller
Watchman Nee
The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.
Watchman Nee
C'est cela, et rien d'autre, qui constitue la grande espérance chrétienne de "la vie après la vie après la mort". Jésus revient parce qu'il n'a pas terminé son œuvre de création. Nous ne serons pas évacués par avion de la planète Terre pour la condamner à son sort. Nous recevrons des corps de résurrection pour vivre sur une terre renouvelée pour une éternité d'aventure avec lui.
Phil Moore, Straight to the heart of Revelation
We must not buy into the quasi-religious planet worship of many environmental groups, but nor must we write off our planet in the hope of a one-way ticket to heaven. Instead, we must do what Christian churches have normally done with this hope over the centuries. Because we know that one day God’s Kingdom will come fully on earth as it is in heaven, we work by his grace and his power to make his Kingdom come in small ways today. Because one day there will be no poverty, pain or injustice, we work hard to eradicate them here and now as an expression of God’s coming Kingdom. Because the new earth will one day resound with a unified song of worship to King Jesus, we work hard today to call the nations to worship him together. Because a day is coming when the Lord will declare “I make all things new”, we work hard today to bring the hallmarks of the age to come into this present age.
This, and nothing else, is the great Christian hope for “life after life after death”. Jesus is coming back because he has not finished with his work of creation. We will not be airlifted away from Planet Earth to consign it to its fate. We will receive resurrection bodies to live on a renewed earth for an eternity of adventure with him.
A. W. Tozer
God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not He who cried, "God, where art Thou?" It was God who cried, "Adam, where art thou?"
A. W. Tozer
Gérard Chrispin, La résurrection, un trésor méconnu, page 46
Auteur inconnu
All our discontents about what we want appear to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Unknown author
Auteur inconnu
I never was without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.
Unknown author
F.B. Meyer
A providence is shaping our ends; a plan is developing in our lives; a supreme and loving Being is making all things work together for good.
F.B. Meyer
A. W. Pink
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.
A. W. Pink
Watchman Nee
God's people must not love their soul life even to the point of death. Unless self-love or self-pity is committed to the cross they shall surely be defeated by the adversary.
Watchman Nee
Charles Spurgeon
When a tear is wept by you, think not your Father does not behold; for, "Like as a father pities his children so the Lord pities them that fear Him." Your sigh is able to move the heart of Jehovah; your whisper can incline His ear unto you; your prayer can stay His hands; your faith can move His arm. Oh! think not that God sits on high in an eternal slumber, taking no account of you.
Charles Spurgeon
John Newton
In general, He guides and directs His people, affording them, in answer to prayer, the light of His Holy Spirit, which enables them to understand and to love the Scriptures.
John Newton
Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness, 2012, p. 41-42.
The conscience is not infallible. We can have an evil conscience that doesn’t turn away from sin (Heb. 10:22). We can have a seared conscience that no longer feels bad for evil (1 Tim. 4:2). We can have a weak conscience that feels bad for things that aren’t really bad (1 Cor. 8:7-12). And we can have a defiled conscience that loses its ability to discern right from wrong (Titus 1:15).
Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness, 2012, p. 41-42.
Frederick W. Robertson
Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain destruction and animosity between nations. It softens and polishes the manners of men. It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties-the desire of supplying their mutual wants. It disposes them to peace by establishing in every state an order of citizens bound by their interest to be the guardians of public tranquility.
Frederick W. Robertson
Alexander MacLaren
The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.
Alexander MacLaren
Watchman Nee
Historically, Pentecost followed Calvary; experientially, being filled with the power of the Holy Spirit follows the bearing of the cross.
Watchman Nee
Samuel Rutherford
I find that when the saints are under trial and well humbled, little sins raise great cries in the conscience; but in prosperity, conscience is a pope that gives dispensations and great latitude to our hearts. The cross is therefore as needful as the crown is glorious.
Samuel Rutherford
Lee Strobel
Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.
Lee Strobel
Dwight L. Moody
The trouble is, people do not know that Christ is a Deliverer. They forget that the Son of God came to keep them from sin as as well as to forgive it.
Dwight L. Moody
Dwight L. Moody
Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, "I will forgive, but not forget." It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ground, so you can grasp it the minute you want it.
Dwight L. Moody