Quotations
Charles Wesley: Let earth and heaven combine….
Thursday/December/2013 07:52
The lyrics of a hymn by Charles Wesley. Read More...
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S. D. Gordon: God's Power is Moral Power
Tuesday/May/2013 16:53
A quotation from an old book on prayer. Read More...
Meister Eckhart: Being, Not Doing
Wednesday/May/2013 16:55
“Do not think to found holiness upon doing; holiness must be founded upon being.” Read More...
William Law: Prayer from the Heart
Tuesday/April/2013 15:56
Another brief quote on prayer from William Law (1686-1761). Read More...
Gorman: Resistence and Worship in the Book of Revelation
Tuesday/April/2013 11:50
A brief quote from Michael J. Gorman on the meaning of the book of Revelation. Read More...
Wesley: “Methodists” Described
Tuesday/April/2013 11:50
A brief quotation from John Wesley. Read More...
John Wesley the Hopeful Inclusivist
Thursday/April/2013 12:07
”…I have no authority from the Word of God ‘to judge those that are without.’ Nor do I conceive that any man living has a right to sentence all the heathen and Mahometan world to damnation.” Read More...
Wesley: Two Paths
Thursday/April/2013 10:46
A quote from John Wesley: Christians have “the choice of walking in the higher or the lower path.” Read More...
Scripture & the Danger of Biblicism
Monday/April/2013 16:11
An interesting quote about the Bible from W. A. Visser’t Hooft in The Kingship of Christ: An Interpretation of Recent European Theology (1948), pp. 142-43 Read More...
Heschel: Blame Religion for its Own Defeats
Wednesday/February/2013 19:35
“Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became….” Read More...
Expect the Spirit to Work for You
Tuesday/February/2013 13:55
A brief quote from F. B. Meyer (1847-1929). Read More...
The Five Points of Arminius
Monday/February/2013 09:46
Here is a statement of the beliefs of Arminius in — as much as possible — the language that he actually used. Read More...
Yoder: No One Ungifted
Monday/February/2013 08:05
Thanks to Dave Wainscott for recently posting this excellent quote from John Howard Yoder…. Read More...
Chesterton on Aquinas: "Only Thyself"
Thursday/January/2013 14:50
A quotation from Chesterton about Thomas Aquinas: “I Will Have Thyself.” Read More...
God-in-Relationship
Tuesday/January/2013 14:13
A quotation from the Preface to a book on the theology of the Old Testament. Read More...
Chesterton: Something More Real Than Realism
Monday/November/2012 08:53
“It was the glory of the great Pagans, in the great days of Paganism, that natural things had a sort of projected halo of the supernatural.” Read More...
Chambers: The Lofty Height Where No One Would Ever Notice You
Friday/November/2012 09:24
A good word for today from Oswald Chambers, taken from his classic devotional book My Utmost for His Highest. Read More...
A Call to Holiness
Monday/October/2012 12:41
“By the grace of God, let us covenant together to be a holy people.” Read More...
No Standing Still
Tuesday/October/2012 11:57
A brief quote from St. Bonaventure (1221-1274). Read More...
Do Not Be Afraid
Tuesday/October/2012 09:33
“The only way that can be changed is for God, from God’s side, to change the power equation and invite us into a world of mutuality and vulnerability.” Read More...
Light Through Darkness
Monday/October/2012 10:02
We must approach the Scriptures with humility and patience, with our own agenda out of the way, and allow the Spirit to stir the deeper meaning for us. Read More...
Bonar: Faith is Rest
Wednesday/June/2012 09:11
“Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good….” Read More...
We Trust. God Works
Tuesday/June/2012 12:57
“Now under these circumstances, what is the part of the believer, and what is the part of the Lord?” Read More...
C. S. Lewis on Marriage: Church and State
Wednesday/May/2012 14:46
An interesting quote from C. S. Lewis in 1952, relevant (possibly) to current controversies about marriage. Read More...
Three Crosses
Thursday/April/2012 16:35
A quotation from a little book by Peter Storey. “The men who hung on the three crosses also turned them into very different instruments upon which to die.” Read More...
The Text and the Interpreter
Wednesday/April/2012 15:44
A quote from theologian Thomas Oden. Read More...
Has a Form of Belief Taken the Place of God??
Tuesday/April/2012 09:36
A brief quote from Oswald Chambers. Found on the Internet. Read More...
Atonement and Communication
Monday/February/2012 16:15
“Rather than the traditional view of the atonement which sees it primarily as a transaction between the Father and the Son apart from humanity….” Read More...
A New Principle of Life
Sunday/February/2012 14:09
“Regeneration is the lodgement by the Holy Spirit of the new principle of life.” Read More...
Persuasion or Force?
Tuesday/January/2012 15:25
What, if anything, do these quotes say about Christian political involvement? Read More...
Tear Up the Itinerary
Friday/December/2011 12:01