Quotes: On Christian Community
The quotes are from Dietrich Bonhoeffer‘s Life Together. They are taken from Tim Chester’s blog post. I have this book and dwell on one chapter while I was in Australia. It was ironic during the time I was backpacking and alone where I realize what it meant to be part of a Christian community. Granted […]
Turn away from it
Dr. Wilbur Chapman once gave this rule of thumb for determining our way of living. He said: “Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work more difficult is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away […]
Quote: Loving God
Picked this up from Challies.com. The quotes is from Jonathan Edward‘s The Religious Affection: The more a true saint loves God with a gracious love, the more he desires to love him, and the more uneasy is he at his want of love to him; the more he hates sin, the more he desires to […]
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Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power. Oswald Chambers
Life of the Soul
This is a repost from Challies.com. When sins and fears prevailing rise, And fainting hope almost expires; Jesus, to Thee I lift mine eyes, To Thee I breathe my soul’s desires. Art Thou not mine, my living Lord; And can my hope, my comfort die, Fixed on Thy everlasting word, That word which built the […]
Future and distant future
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. – C S Lewis What Jesus (Matthew 6:25-34) […]
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
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“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep, in order to gain what he cannot lose.” – J. Elliott