Quotes
« Previous EntriesQuote of the Day - Howard Hendricks on Leadership
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Started Malphurs’ Being Leaders and came across this thought:
The greatest crisis in the world today is a crisis of leadership, and the greatest crisis of leadership is a crisis of character. (18)
More Stott Goodness
Thursday, March 20th, 2008On the centrality of the Cross, looking at Moltmann and Luther:
Luther’s theologica crucis, therefore, “is not a single chapter in theology, but the key signature for all Christian theology.” No theology is genuinely Christ which does not arise form the focus on the cross.
Statement against the Moral Influence Theory:
True love is purposive in its [...]
Stott on Salvation
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008John Stott, in his chapter on Salvation (as a result of the Cross) points to four profound images that describe what was accomplished on or through the Cross of Christ (propitiation, redemption, justification, reconciliation). Here are a few quotes along the way.
On Justification:
Forgiveness remits our debts and cels our liability to punishment; justification bestows [...]
Quote of the Month - Carter Allen
Thursday, March 6th, 2008So Carter and Caleb start soccer next week. Carrie took Carter to get some shin guards the other day. He asked what they were for. “They’re in case someone accidentally kicks you in the leg…”
After a momentary pause to think:
“Do they make shin guards for my wee-wee.”
Definitely the quote of the month.
Quote of the Day from my Wife
Monday, January 14th, 2008To our children:
“I just want you to eat like people.”
Maybe you had to be there.
Maybe not.
Quote: Charles Spurgeon (Never Satisfied with Mediocrity)
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008I found this quote from Spurgeon via Steve McCoy.
If I never won souls, I would sigh till I did. I would break my heart over them if I could not break their hearts. Though I can understand the possibility of an earnest sower never reaping, I cannot understand the possibility of an earnest [...]
Pharisaism Then & Now
Thursday, December 27th, 2007I’m trying to work my way through NT Wright’s The New Testament and The People of God. It’s a huge book with a lot of great material, Wright’s chapter on Critical Realism is a great treatment of the issue.
I just finished a chapter dealing with different facets to the growth of diversity in Judaism [...]
Quote Of The Day - David Allen, Getting Things Done
Friday, December 14th, 2007I ran across several good quotes via David Allen as I read Getting Things Done the other day.
“Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get perfect.” - Ann McGee Cooper
“The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas.” -Linus Pauling
“It’s easier to act yourself into a better way f feeling [...]
Quote Of The Day - Spurgeon, The Gravity of Preaching
Thursday, December 13th, 2007It may be light work to you men of genius and learning; but to me it is life and death work. Often have I thought that I would rather take a whipping with a cat-o-nine-tails than preach again. How can I answer for it at the last great day unless I am faithful? “Who is [...]
Quote Of The Day - C.S. Lewis, The Rewards of Heaven
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007As I think about the great hope found in Jesus’ Resurrection I found this quote especially meaningful (via Kent Hughes):
We must not be troubled by unbelievers when they say that this promise of rewards makes the Christian’s life a mercenary affair. There are different kinds of reward. There is the reward which has no natural [...]