191 quotes found
“Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing but God himself is finally an end in itself. Thinking is not the goal of life. Thinking can be th...”
“I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.”
“Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.”
“Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.”
“The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.”
“Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.”
“Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefor...”
“The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.”
“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”
“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the wor...”
“The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.”
“It was a costly triumph. But Gods values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated Satan, then it would not have been so clear that God is both stronger and infinitely more to be des...”
“Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of God's timing or the goodness of God's guidance. It springs up in our hearts when our plan is interr...”
“Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.”
“The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.”
“Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.”
“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.”
“...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely express...”
“The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when we worship on the basis of what we know about him than he gets if we worship on the basis of what...”
“God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever willfor us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.”
