May 2011
78 posts
Christianity is not about sinking or swimming, it’s about walking on water.
April 2011
47 posts
1 tag
It is at once the most Christlike and the most...
C. H. Spurgeon
1 tag
We must learn to think again about the Christian Church. Our whole approach has...
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Revival
2 tags
To instance in the duty of prayer: it is manifest,...
Jonathan Edwards, Religions Affections
2 tags
The "religious act" is always something partial;...
D. Bonhoeffer
1 tag
So I venture to urge you to be patient, but determined. Do not lose heart. Watch...
– John Stott, Christian Basics
2 tags
All temptation is temptation of Jesus Christ and all victory is victory of Jesus...
– D. Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall
lines and colors :: a blog about drawing,... →
1 tag
If man were happy, the less he were diverted the happier he would be, like the...
– Blaise Pascal, Pensees
1 tag
The wasted years, the barren years, the years that the locusts and the...
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression
1 tag
Satan does not often attack a Christian who is living near to God. It is when...
– C.H. Spurgeon
Well, stop looking at yourself and begin to enjoy Him.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression
1 tag
I shall not demean my own uniqueness by envy of others. I shall stop boring into...
– Clyde Kilby, Resolutions
1 tag
If you insist on holding on to yourself and living for yourself and refusing to...
– John Stott, Why I Am a Christian
1 tag
Of all the temptations that I’ve ever experienced in my life, the questioning of...
– John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (paraphrased)
1 tag
It dawned on me for the first time, really. It had dawned on me before, but it...
– Bono, In Coversation with Michka Assayas
1 tag
Perseverance is the badge of true saints.
– C.H. Spurgeon
1 tag
To expect Christian conduct from people who are not yet Christians is dangerous...
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, God’s Way of Reconciliation
1 tag
What makes you a Christian is that God does something to you. It is not that you...
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Kingdom of God
1 tag
He that is down need fear no fall;
He that is low, no pride;
He that is...
– John Newton, The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation
1 tag
If we have no sense of responsibility for the condition of humanity at this...
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Joy Unspeakable
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Legolas: Look at them. They’re frightened. I can see it in their eyes. And they should be. Three hundred against ten thousand! They cannot win this fight! They are all going to die!
Aragorn: Then I shall die as one of them!
I’ve been a way I shouldn’t be.
I became downcast and I fell into temptation that led to despair. I doubted God’s...
1 tag
The only value of religious services is that they concentrate into an hour or so...
– John Stott, Involvement
1 tag
Have pity on me and heal me, for you see that I have become a problem to myself,...
– St. Augustine, Confessions
1 tag
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ....
– Bono, Bono: in conversation with Michkas Assayas
1 tag
Most of our troubles are due to the fact that we are guilty of a double failure;...
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, God’s Way of Reconciliation
ANTHEM: Strategies for Fighting Lust // John Piper →
1 tag
But all the blessings that [Christians] are enjoying are spiritual blessings....
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, God’s Way of Reconciliation
2 tags
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer...
– Martin Luther, quoted from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together.
How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With? -... →
1 tag
What I am trying to say is this: I am certain that the world outside is not...
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Joy Unspeakable
1 tag
There is a sort of external religious practice, without inward experience, which...
– Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections
1 tag
1 tag
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can...
– Blaise Pascal, Pensees
1 tag
Sir, you wish to serve God and go to heaven. Remember you cannot serve Him...
– John Wesley, Wesley’s Journal
1 tag
1 tag
Men who believe themselves noble-winded waste their lives in protesting against...
– Paul Tournier, Escape from Loneliness
It's not about being unselfish; it's about being...
1 tag
Sin is the rebellious assertion of myself against the love and authority of God,...
– John Stott, Why I Am a Christian
2 tags
It’s always the same argument that wins the day: faith over fear.
– Bono
1 tag
Blaise Pascal on conversion:
Confusion
When God is pleased to enter into the intimate communion with the soul, his first action is to bestow an extraordinary knowledge and insight, through which the soul reflects on itself and on the world in a way that is altogether new. The enlightenment installs a holy fear, which stirs up in the soul a profound regret at all the years that have been wasted in idle pleasures. The soul now...
1 tag
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without thee, it would be a...
– Samuel Rutherford
The Prosecution Rests, but I Can’t - NYTimes.com →
Social experiment: Know thy neighbor →