"Wouldn’t it be nice if there was somebody who can save us from all this, save us from ourselves, save us from the consequences of our actions and save us from people who are evil?”
Ben, I'd like to tell you about Jesus.
November 27, 2017
November 08, 2017
Quotables - Francis Schaeffer
"The young man Joshua was learning a lesson that anybody who is ever going to be worth anything in leadership must learn. None of us learns it completely, of course, and yet we must master it if we are going to be of any use in the Church of God. A leader must never confuse himself with God. When a person begins to exercise certain gifts and God brings him to a place of leadership in the Church of Christ, how easy it is to do this. Yet this is the destruction of all true spiritual leadership."
- Francis Schaeffer from Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History, page 159
October 28, 2017
Quotables - Charles Spurgeon
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
- Charles Spurgeon
How Depression Feels
"What does mental illness actually look like and feel like? How is depression different from just feeling sad or discouraged or blue? I'm not the only one, certainly, to try to describe it. In his award-winning book Darkness Visible, William Styron writes:
'The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying - or from discomfort to relative comfort, or from boredom to activity - but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.' "
Darkness Is My Only Companion - Kathryn Greene-McCreight, pg 39
"Depression meant that every breath, every thought, every moment of consciousness ached, throbbed, stung."
Darkness Is My Only Companion - Kathryn Greene-McCreight, pg 55
October 20, 2017
Quotables - Charles Spurgeon
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
- Charles Spurgeon
October 14, 2017
October 13, 2017
October 04, 2017
July 07, 2017
Quotables - Jonathan Edwards
Men that have their spirits heated and enraged and rising in bitter resentment when they are injured act as if they thought some strange thing had happened to them. Whereas they are very foolish in so thinking for it is no strange thing at all but only what was to be expected in a world like this. They therefore do not act wisely that allow their spirits to be ruffled by the injuries they suffer.
As love to God prevails, it tends to set persons above human injuries, in this sense, that the more they love God the more they will place all their happiness in him. They will look to God as their all and seek their happiness in portion in his favor, and thus not in the allotments of his providence alone. The more they love God, the less they set their hearts on their worldly interests, which are all that their enemies can touch.
July 02, 2017
June 10, 2017
June 07, 2017
June 03, 2017
May 24, 2017
Quotables - Charles Spurgeon
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. - Charles Spurgeon
May 16, 2017
May 02, 2017
April 25, 2017
April 21, 2017
Quotables - Charles Spurgeon
"Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go."
- Charles Spurgeon
April 20, 2017
Quotables - Ray Bradbury
"He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new."
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.
Quotables - Charles Spurgeon
"The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride. The gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair."
- Charles Spurgeon
Quotables - Martin Luther
“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”
- Martin Luther
April 19, 2017
Quotables - John Piper
"Life is a constant battle not to believe the devil’s portrait of this world as preferable to the preciousness of God."
- John Piper
Quotables - Charles Spurgeon
Some trumpets are so stuffed with self that God cannot blow through them. - Spurgeon
April 14, 2017
April 13, 2017
Quotables - Charles Spurgeon
"Our trials are often the shadows of coming mercies. When He's shown us our entire dependence upon Himself, He'll work deliverance."
—Charles Spurgeon
April 10, 2017
March 21, 2017
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