Quote of the week

"Did we evolve our capacity to use language, or were we made with that capacity because we were created in the image of someone who uses words? Language does not merely enable us to be creative. Language is itself creative." —Vishal Mangalwadi

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"But I have wondered long and hard why it is that while we relentlessly seek God’s answers when in the throes of suffering we never seem to pause with equal sincerity to ask Him for guidance of wisdom in pleasure and seem very uncertain about God’s presence in fun and pleasure." —Ravi Zacharias

Christmas Quote of the Week

Christians do "not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."  —Samuel Johnson

Quote of the week

"If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior." Max Lucado

Quote of the week

"The helpers themselves need much help, much care and instruction; but they are becoming more efficient as well as more numerous, and the hope for China lies doubtless in them. I look on foreign missionaries as the scaffolding round a rising building; the sooner it can be dispensed with, the better – or the sooner, rather, that it can be transferred to serve the same temporary purpose elsewhere." —J. Hudson Taylor, speaking of national helpers

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"The book of Job is about suffering in the same way that the book of Ecclesiastes is about affluence. They are only the anvils of experience upon which the truth of the centrality of God is hammered out in a person's life." —Jim Berg

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"It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them." —C. H. Spurgeon

Quote of the week

Job's "strange experience is one from which no believer is exempt. All of us share in the maddening paradox that we are the loved and redeemed children of God … and yet still being compelled to experience firsthand the cruelty and injustice of a world in which the righteous are unwelcome intruders, and in which all too often the strength of evildoers goes wildly unchecked." —Mike Mason

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"No pain, no palm. No cross, no crown. No thorn, no throne. No gall, no glory. Learn to glory in tribulations. This is the only world where you can give God that glory." — Robert M. M’Cheyne

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"One thing to be borne in mind is that since the days of Pentecost there is no record of the sudden and direct work of the Spirit of God upon the souls of men that has not been accompanied by events more or less abnormal. It is, indeed, on consideration, only natural that it should be so. We cannot expect an abnormal inrush of the Divine light and power, so profoundly affecting the emotions and changing the lives of men, without remarkable results. As well expect a hurricane, an earthquake, a flood, to leave nothing abnormal in its course, as to expect a true Revival that is not accompanied by events quite out of our ordinary experience." A. T. Schofield in By My Spirit

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"Many times have I been ready to shrink back, and to say, Lord, I pray thee, have me excused; but if God should honor us by permission to lay foundations, foundations of his church in Siam, ... we shall have reason to praise Him through all eternity, for having employed us in such a service. Over and over again have I been obliged to say to myself, that the only way of doing any thing to promote a great object is to try and try again, and when one plan fails, to resort to another; and if God spares my life, I am resolved to keep on trying till my work is done." — Eliza Jones

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“The Bible was not so neglected a Book when the great revivals of 1857-1859 swept over the United States and Great Britain. Neither was it so neglected in Moody’s time. During the late Manchu dynasty, scholars were expected to know the classics of their sages by heart. How do the scholars of the so-called Christian lands measure up to that standard as regards the “World’s Great Classic”? It is nothing short of pathetic how so many, who come professedly to represent the Lord Jesus Christ..., know so little of His Word. Thirty years ago the missionary ideal was to know the Bible so well that one would not have to carry around a concordance.” — Jonathan Goforth, By My Spirit [emphasis added]

Quote of the week

"We are apt to have a disproportionate view of a Christian because we look only at exceptions. The exceptions stand out as exceptions. The extraordinary conversions and phenomenal experiences are magnificent specimen studies of what happens in the life of everyone, but not one in a million has an experience such as the Apostle Paul had. The majority of us are unnoticed and unnoticeable people. If we take the extraordinary experience as a model for the Christian life, we erect a wrong standard without knowing it, and in the passing of the years we produce that worse abortion, the spiritual prig -- an intolerant un-likeness to Jesus Christ. The man or woman who becomes a spiritual prig does so by imperceptible degrees, but the starting-point is a departure from the evangel of the New Testament and a building up on the evangel of Protestantism." - Oswald Chambers

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“Who among us can be counted on for happiness? It is those who never take self into consideration at all” — Amy Carmichael

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"It will cost something to walk slow in the parade of the ages, while excited men of time rush about confusing motion with progress. But it will pay in the long run and the true Christian is not much interested in anything short of that." - A. W. Tozer

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"The things that we are willing to make sacrifices for reveal what our idols are."

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"It is no matter for surprise that, when we ask people even to consider the possibility of decadence, we meet with incredulity and resentment. We must consider that we are in effect asking for a confession of guilt and an acceptance of sterner obligation; we are making demands in the name of the ideal or the suprapersonal, and we cannot expect a more cordial welcome than disturbers of complacency have received in any other age. On the contrary, our welcome will rather be less today, for a century and a half of bourgeois ascendancy has produced a type of mind highly unreceptive to unsettling thoughts. Added to this is the egotism of modern man, fed by many springs, which will scarcely permit the humility needed for self-criticism." - Richard Weaver (1948)

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There is no corruption that threatens a country so surely as the sentimentalizing of its religion; and there is no corruption of the Christian religion so swift as that which sets in when [churches] lose their strict Biblical discipline. - E.C. Hoskyns

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"Once biblical authority is surrendered it leads to the most undesirable consequences. It will end in apostasy at last. It is my opinion that it is next to impossible to stop the process of theological deterioration once inerrancy is abandoned." — Harold Lindsell (quoted in Promise Unfulfilled: The Failed Strategy of Modern Evangelicalism by Rolland McCune).

Sometimes weekly quote

"Whitefield and Wesley might preach the Gospel better than I. But they cannot preach a better Gospel." - Spurgeon