Category: Quotes

Jesus never met:
      * a disease he could not cure,
      * a birth defect he could not reverse,
      * a demon he could not exorcise.

Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver’s part, and some who heard Jesus’ strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.
–Philip Yancey

Jesus can do amazing things in our lives if only we will choose to let Him work in us. Too many people resist the Lordship of Christ, they turn away from His grace and forgiveness, and they lose the opportunity to experience the abundant life He promised. Don’t resist what Christ desires to do in your life, even though it will require that you relinquish your will and your ways over to His control.

I had always vaguely felt facts to be miracles in the sense that they are wonderful; now I began to think them miracles in the stricter sense that they were willful. I mean that they were, or might be, repeated exercises of some will. In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic; now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician. And this pointed a profound emotion always present and sub-conscious; that this world of ours has some purpose; and if there is a purpose, there is a person. I had always felt life first as a story; and if there is a story there is a story-teller.
–G. K. Chesterton

This is simply another re-stating of the idea that an intelligent design requires and intelligent designer. Chesterton came to realize through the basic study of this world, that there was a purpose for it – a purpose for its facts and for its natural laws – and that there was a Person behind the purpose. As a story-teller himself, he realized that this life is itself a story and that there was a Great Story-Teller behind it all.

It is feared that many today who profess to be Christ’s never learn wisdom, and this through failure to attend sufficiently to God’s written Word…. How long is it since you read right through the Bible? Do you spend as much time with the Bible each day as you do even with the newspaper? What fools some of us are! And we remain fools all our lives, simply because we will not take the trouble to do what has to be done to receive the wisdom which is God’s free gift.
–J. I. Packer

I recently challenged our church family to read one chapter of the New Testament each day. If we would do that simple task, we would continue to be changed by God on a regular basis!

Sin is not small, because it is not against a small Sovereign. The seriousness of an insult rises with the dignity of the one insulted. The Creator of the universe is infinitely worthy of respect and admiration and loyalty. Therefore, failure to love Him is not trivial… it is treason.
–John Piper

Yep.
No matter what others might be saying… Sin IS a big deal.

Once a man has experienced the mercy of God in his life, he will henceforth aspire to serve. The proud throne of the judge no longer lures him; he wants to be down below with the lowly and the needy, because that is where God found him.
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Are you able to remember where God found you? You were a rebellious enemy of His, and yet He still loved you enough to die for you. You were lowly and needy – unable to provide your own salvation, so He did it for you.

He served us.
That knowledge should drive us to want to serve others.