May 2011
78 posts
Christianity is not about sinking or swimming, it’s about walking on water.
May 1st
April 2011
47 posts
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It is at once the most Christlike and the most...
C. H. Spurgeon
Apr 30th
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“We must learn to think again about the Christian Church. Our whole approach has...”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Revival
Apr 30th
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To instance in the duty of prayer: it is manifest,...
Jonathan Edwards, Religions Affections
Apr 29th
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The "religious act" is always something partial;...
D. Bonhoeffer
Apr 29th
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“So I venture to urge you to be patient, but determined. Do not lose heart. Watch...”
– John Stott, Christian Basics
Apr 28th
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“All temptation is temptation of Jesus Christ and all victory is victory of Jesus...”
– D. Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall
Apr 28th
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lines and colors :: a blog about drawing,... →
Apr 28th
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“If man were happy, the less he were diverted the happier he would be, like the...”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Apr 27th
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“The wasted years, the barren years, the years that the locusts and the...”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression
Apr 27th
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“Satan does not often attack a Christian who is living near to God. It is when...”
– C.H. Spurgeon
Apr 26th
“Well, stop looking at yourself and begin to enjoy Him.”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression
Apr 26th
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“I shall not demean my own uniqueness by envy of others. I shall stop boring into...”
– Clyde Kilby, Resolutions
Apr 25th
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“If you insist on holding on to yourself and living for yourself and refusing to...”
– John Stott, Why I Am a Christian
Apr 25th
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“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) 
Apr 24th
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“It dawned on me for the first time, really. It had dawned on me before, but it...”
– Bono, In Coversation with Michka Assayas
Apr 24th
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“Perseverance is the badge of true saints.”
– C.H. Spurgeon
Apr 23rd
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“To expect Christian conduct from people who are not yet Christians is dangerous...”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, God’s Way of Reconciliation
Apr 23rd
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“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
Apr 22nd
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“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
Apr 22nd
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“If we have no sense of responsibility for the condition of humanity at this...”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Joy Unspeakable
Apr 21st
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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...
Apr 21st
Apr 20th
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“The only value of religious services is that they concentrate into an hour or so...”
– John Stott, Involvement
Apr 20th
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“Have pity on me and heal me, for you see that I have become a problem to myself,...”
– St. Augustine, Confessions
Apr 19th
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“My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ....”
– Bono, Bono: in conversation with Michkas Assayas
Apr 19th
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“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
Apr 18th
ANTHEM: Strategies for Fighting Lust // John Piper →
Apr 18th
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“But all the blessings that [Christians] are enjoying are spiritual blessings....”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, God’s Way of Reconciliation
Apr 18th
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“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.
Apr 17th
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How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With? -... →
Apr 17th
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“What I am trying to say is this: I am certain that the world outside is not...”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Joy Unspeakable
Apr 17th
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“There is a sort of external religious practice, without inward experience, which...”
– Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections
Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can...”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Apr 16th
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“Sir, you wish to serve God and go to heaven. Remember you cannot serve Him...”
– John Wesley, Wesley’s Journal
Apr 15th
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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“Men who believe themselves noble-winded waste their lives in protesting against...”
– Paul Tournier, Escape from Loneliness
Apr 15th
It's not about being unselfish; it's about being...
Apr 14th
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“Sin is the rebellious assertion of myself against the love and authority of God,...”
– John Stott, Why I Am a Christian
Apr 14th
Apr 14th
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“It’s always the same argument that wins the day: faith over fear.”
– Bono
Apr 14th
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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...
Apr 14th
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“O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without thee, it would be a...”
– Samuel Rutherford
Apr 14th
The Prosecution Rests, but I Can’t - NYTimes.com →
Apr 11th
Social experiment: Know thy neighbor →
Apr 9th