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"Popularity is not success, obscurity is not failure." Chris Larsen, President, Ligonier
"True prayers are like those carrier pigeons which find their way so well – they cannot fail to go to Heaven, for it is from heaven that they come – they are only going home! - Charles Spurgeon
Paul says the gospel is "of first importance" and then goes to expound on its powerful glory. A reminder that anything that becomes “our thing” that isn’t the *main thing* is in actuality a boring thing” Jared Wilson
“Pride is the carbon monoxide of sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.” - Tim Keller
“A Christian is not of hasty growth, like a mushroom, but rather like the oak, the progress of which is hardly perceptible, but, in time, becomes a great deep-rooted tree.” - John Newton
To paraphrase John Owen to a masculine context:
“No man speaks well to other gathered men who hasn’t preached the gospel to his own heart; because, unless he finds the power of the gospel in his own heart, he cannot have any confidence that his message will have power and efficacy to transform the hearts of other men. It is seemingly an easier thing to speak moralisms, platitudes and techniques than to preach the unvarnished, supernatural power of God’s Gospel.” Dave Brown
“One of the great difficulties is to keep before the audience's mind the question of truth. They always think you are recommending Christianity not because it is true but because it is good.
“And in the discussion they will at every moment try to escape from the issue "true-or false" into stuff about a good society, or morals, or the incomes of bishops, or the Spanish Inquisition, or France, or Poland -or anything whatever. You have to keep forcing them back, and again back, to the real point. Only thus will you be able to undermine [their] belief that a certain amount of "religion" is desirable but one mustn't carry it too far. One must keep on pointing out that Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock And Other Essays
“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.” - Corrie ten Boom
“Pride is your greatest enemy, humility is your greatest friend.” John Stott
“The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensive… To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending… The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, “You are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.” - Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981 British pastor/theologian and medical doctor)
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