Category: Quotes

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Quote, Praying Biblically

God’s readiness to hear and willingness to grant His people’s prayers are continually proclaimed throughout Scripture (Ps. 9:10; 10:17-18; 18:3; 34:15-17; 37:4-5; 50:14-15; 145:18-19).  God has given us numerous examples of imprecatory prayers, showing repeatedly that one aspect of a godly man’s attitude is hatred for God’s enemies and fervent prayer for their downfall and destruction (Ps. 5:10; 10:15; 35:1-8, 22-26; 59:12-13; 68:1-4; 69:22-28; 83; 94; 109; 137:8-9; 139:19-24; 140:6-11).  Why then do we not see the overthrow of the wicked in our own time?  An important part of the answer is the unwillingness of the modern Church to pray Biblically; and God has assured us: You do not have because you do not ask (James 4:2).  —David Chilton, The Days of Vengeance, p. 250.

{HT: John Barach}

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On Postmillennialism: Jonathan Edwards

The future promised advancement of the kingdom of Christ is an event unspeakably happy and glorious. The Scriptures speak of that time, as a time wherein God and his Son Jesus Christ will be most eminently glorified on earth. —Jonathan Edwards, A History of the Work of Redemption

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Face to Face: Meditations on Friendship and Hospitality

Steve Wilkin’s book is an excellent introduction to a neglected aspect of the church, namely, friendship and hospitality. Here are some quotes from chapter one:

…we practice so little genuine biblical friendship. (9)

Whenever a society tolerates sin and covenant-breaking, loneliness becomes a common problem within that society, and its citizens begin to think of true friends as a luxury, not as a necessity. (9)

The folly of mankind has never been more plain: encouraging the very selfishness and self-centeredness that destroys true friendship, and then complaining of loneliness. (10)

But when children grow up in a culture that is unfriendly—in the true sense of the word—they grow up without the skills they need to build and maintain biblical friendships and relationships. (10)

4574_002Friends are not a luxury but a necessity. (11)

The church, as the great covenant family, is the example of true community and thus is the pattern for all human communities in the world. (12)

The survival of the human race depends upon companionship, communion, and holy friendship. (14) Continue reading “Face to Face: Meditations on Friendship and Hospitality”

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John of Damascus on what happened at the cross

By nothing else except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ hath death been brought low:

The sin of our first parents destroyed, hell plundered, resurrection bestowed, the power given us to despise the things of this world, even death itself; the road back to the former blessedness made smooth, the gates of paradise opened, our nature seated at the right hand of God, and we made children and heirs of God. By the cross all these things have been made aright… It is a seal that the destroyer may not strike us, a raising up of those who lie fallen, a support for those who stand, a staff for the infirm, a crook for the shepherded, a guide for the wandering, a perfecting of the advanced, salvation for soul and body, a deflector of all evils, a cause of all goods, a destruction of sin, a plant of resurrection and a tree of eternal life.

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Quote, John Ryle on John 12

…there can be no life without death, there can be no sweet without bitter, there can be no crown without cross.

–John Ryle, Short Expository Readings on the Gospel of John, pg. 189.

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On Faith, Herman Ridderbos

Faith will always bear on its face the sign of the grace of being a child of God, just as unbelief bears the sign of disobedience to the summons of the gospel.

(The Gospel According to John, 141)

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Quote, on the one Church

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved. — Saint Thomas Aquinas