Category: Quotes
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Every Christian a Barabbas; Every Christian a Simon the Cyrene
“Every Christian is both a Simon of Cyrene and a Barabbas. Like Barabbas we escape the cross, for Christ died in our place. Like Simon of Cyrene we carry the cross, for he calls us to take it up and follow him.” — John Stott Stott’s point is even more powerful when we note that…
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Quotebook #5
John Stott, reminding us what Jesus did: He was misunderstood and misrepresented, and became the victim of men’s prejudices and vested interests. He was despised and rejected by his own people, and deserted by his own friends. He gave his back to be flogged, his face to be spat upon, his head to be crowned…
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The True Humanism: Being Christian Is Natural
The New Testament presents the church as God’s new humanity. The Dutch theologian A. A. Van Ruler put it this way: “We become Christians in order that we may become truly and fully human.” Being Christian is not unnatural. There is nothing more natural than living for God’s glory in Christ Jesus. It’s what we were…
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Thanksgiving
This week, millions of Americans will gather for Thanksgiving. But will they really be giving thanks? And who will they thank? The Thanksgiving holiday is an annual reminder that our nation has wonderful (though obviously imperfect) Christian heritage. The influence of the Christian faith upon our nation, its government, its culture, its institutions, is the…
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Why the West Has Been the Best
A study was done by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2002 to discover why the West has had such historical success. This is what they found: “One of the things we were asked to look into was what accounted for the success, in fact, the pre-eminence of the West all over the world.…
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Charles Spurgeon on Masculinity
Charles Spurgeon on Christian faith and masculinity, from his 1898 book “A Good Start”: When I say that a man in Christ is a man, I mean that, if he is truly in Christ, he is therefore manly. There has got abroad a notion, somehow, that if you become a Christian, you must sink your manliness and turn milksop. It…
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Got a problem with the church?
Maybe Eugene Peterson can help: “Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren’t bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors…. There’s nobody who doesn’t have problems with the church, because there’s sin in the church. But there’s no other place to be a Christian.“
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Chrysostom on the Church
Never separate yourself from the Church. For nothing is stronger than the Church. Your hope is the Church alone; your salvation is inside the Church only, your refuge is the Church. She is higher than the heavens, and wider than the whole earth. She never grows old, but is always full of vigor and vitality.…
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John Piper on Emotional Blackmail
“Not feeling loved and not being loved are not the same. Jesus loved all people well. And many did not like the way he loved them. Was David’s zeal for the Lord imbalanced because his wife Michal despised him for it? Was Job’s devotion to the Lord inordinate because his wife urged him to curse…
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John Calvin, on Why Pastors Need to Be Thick Skinned
None are more exposed to slanders and insults than godly teachers. This comes not only from the difficulty of their duties, which are so great that sometimes they sink under them, or stagger or halt or take a false step, so that wicked men find many occasions of finding fault with them; but added to…
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