- God Is Not Wearied by Conferring Kindness John Calvin
God is not like men, so as to be wearied out or exhausted by conferring kindness.
- Smalltalk is Counsel David Powlison
When I use the word counseling I don’t mean a Ph.D. in psychotherapy in an office. I mean the way the Bible talks about counseling, which is the effect of the tongue, and …
- The Grace of Perception Thomas Brooks
The first remedy against this device of Satan is, To dwell more upon one another’s graces than upon one another’s weaknesses and infirmities. It is sad to consider that …
- Devotion Through Domestic Service John Calvin
If a woman were to spend all day long in church, praying and chanting, her style of life would not be as agreeable to God as if she were a wife who patiently performed …
- Generational Criticism and Nostalgia Matthew Henry
And it is sometimes the fault of old people to discourage the services of the present age by crying up too much the performances and attainments of the former age.
- Righteousness by Works vs. Doctrine Herman Bavinck
We must remind ourselves that the Catholic righteousness by good works is vastly preferable to a protestant righteousness by good doctrine. At least righteousness by good …
- The Real America J. Gresham Machen
If aliens were to be called upon, at the discretion of officials, for their registration cards, citizens must be given some means of proving that they are not aliens, and …
- Our Constitutional Temperament John Newton
I would observe farther, that our spiritual exercises are not a little influenced by our constitutional temperament. As you are only an ideal correspondent, I can but …
- They must not be double-tongued John Lorimer
[The deacon] is in danger also, perhaps, of promising to the pastor, and not fulfilling. This is justly fatal to character and to usefulness. It prevents confidence and …
- A fault which is no fault George Hutcheson
Men who are possessed with self-love and with prejudice against others will readily count that a fault in their neighbours which yet is no fault, and will allow that in …
- Men Without Chests C. S. Lewis
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be …
- Love is not affectionate feeling C. S. Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
- Debaters Ready George Hutcheson
None are more bold and ready to fall on debates than those who are weakest in religion.
- Charity of Age J.R.R. Tolkien
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more—remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men’s hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very …
- Love is Vulnerable C. S. Lewis
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of …
- Quarrel with your own heart! Augustine of Hippo
Prefer even vicious people to be cured rather than condemned …. If you want to quarrel with your enemy, quarrel first with your own heart. Quarrel, I tell you. Quarrel …
- Sing more! Charles Spurgeon
We need more singing!
Sing more and murmur less!
Sing more and slander less!
Sing more and cavil less!
Sing more and mourn less!
- Tough Times for Evangelical Theology Carl Trueman
Evangelical theology faces tough times ahead: the church seems variously determined to prioritise management technique, religious experience, or that nebulous bane of …
- Unmarried in the Church Christian Reformed Church Study Committee
The church is required to be the body of Christ in which the unmarried may find fulfillment as persons in the fellowship and companionship of the congregation of …
- Law-Gospel Exegesis J. Ligon Duncan
Law-gospel is a wonderful theological category. It’s lousy exegesis. If every command that you find you put in the category of law, and every promise you put in the …
- Making Best Use of the Time Greg Beale
I read [the 740 page N.T. Wright book on the Resurrection of Jesus] while brushing my teeth over a period of time. … One page in the morning, one in the evening.
- Most Influential Pastors Carl Trueman
When I ask students who are the most influential pastors in their life, it’s concerning that they rarely mention their local pastors.
- Quiet, Peaceful, and Godly Lives R. Scott Clark
There aren’t many books being written about the seven steps to living quiet, peaceful, and godly lives, and yet that’s the explicit, unequivocal teaching of the word of …
- First Foundation of Righteousness John Calvin
Surely the first foundation of righteousness is the worship of God.
- Biblical Modes of Baptism Meredith Kline
For any mode of relating the water to a person that is attested in the various biblical water ordeals would have biblical warrant. Of course, not all such modes would …
- Leisure to Look Up to Heaven Thomas Brooks
King Henry the Fourth (of France) asked the Duke of Alva if he had observed the great eclipse of the sun, which had lately happened. No, said the duke, I have so much to …
- Contentious Spirit John Frame
Scripture often condemns a “contentious” spirit (Prov. 13:10, 18:6, 26:21, Hab. 1:3, 1 Cor. 1:11, 11:16, Tit. 3:9) and commends “gentleness” (2 Cor. 10:1, Gal. 5:22, 1 …
- On the Loss of a Beloved Pastor John Newton
Your beloved pastor has died, but he has only gone a little before you. We expect and hope to follow him soon. It will be a joyful meeting, when we shall part no more. In …
- Thinks Ill of You Charles Spurgeon
Brother, if any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him.
For you are worse than he thinks you to be.
- Retire Like a Plentiful Guest from a Thankful Table John Newton
The calendar tells me that if I live until next Monday, I shall enter my seventy-sixth year. I believe you will pray for me on that day. My eyes, ears, and legs likewise …
- Is He Not Gracious and Faithful? John Newton
Let us suppose the thing we are most afraid of actually to happen. Can it come a moment sooner, or in any other way, than by His appointment?
Is He not gracious, and …
- Tokens of a Little and Narrow Mind John Newton
In effect, to be much taken up with the interests of self, to live upon the breath of others, to be full of resentment for every injury, and watchful to retaliate it; …
- Too Little Concerned for the Glory of God John Newton
But indeed, we hearken too much to the flesh — and too little to faith; we are too much attached to our own petty concerns — and too little concerned for the glory of …
- Gentle Spirit Required for Correcting Others John Calvin
No man is prepared for chastising a brother till he has succeeded in acquiring a gentle spirit.
- Thankful Guest from a Plentiful Table John Newton
Pray likewise for me, that no gross imprudence or misconduct may stain the latter part of my life — but that I may be enabled to exemplify in myself what I have labored …
- Imitate the Lowly God Augustine of Hippo
Why art thou proud, O man? God for thee became low. Thou wouldst perhaps be ashamed to imitate a lowly man; then at least imitate the lowly God.
- Exercise of Trials John Newton
And how are you to know experimentally, either your own weakness—or the power, wisdom and grace of God, seasonably and sufficiently afforded—but by frequent and various …
- Knowledge of God vs Fear of Man Ed Welch
A growing knowledge of God displaces the fear of people, and it casts out our tendency to be casual with our secret sins.
- Science Doesn't Teach Anything Richard Feynman
When someone says, “Science teaches such and such,” he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, “Science …
- Full and Complete and Sufficient Ransom Christopher Love
What is the great reason that so many poor souls are so much cast down for sin, too much dejected under the sight and sense of it?
It is this: because they are afraid to …
- Beware Doubting His Kindness J.C. Ryle
If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life. Let us never allow ourselves to think …
- Heavenly Hosts Keeping Watch John Calvin
For if the fact that all of the heavenly hosts are keeping watch for his safety will not satisfy a man, I do not see what benefit he could derive from knowing that one …
- What do you think about when you are in bed? John Owen
What do you think about when you are in bed, either settling down to sleep or waking up? There are those who ‘work out evil on their beds’! (Mic. 2:1). And there are …
- Not My Deserving Johann Heermann
Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay thee, I do adore thee, and will ever pray thee, think on thy pity and thy love unswerving, not my deserving.
- Ignorance of our own Faults John Calvin
Ignorance of our own faults is the only cause that renders us unwilling to forgive our brethren.
- Amplified "Worship Teams" and Congregational Singing Andy Crouch
The granting of the power of amplification to ‘worship teams’ in American Christianity has done more than anything since the Protestant Reformation to undermine …
- Calvin on Augustine on Humility John Calvin
When a certain rhetorician was asked what was the chief rule in eloquence, he replied, ‘Delivery’; what was the second rule, ‘Delivery’; what was the third rule, …
- About Christ Council of Nicaea
We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, …
- The Design of the Office of Ruling Elder Samuel Miller
The design of appointing persons to the office of Ruling Elder is not to pay them a compliment; not to give them an opportunity of figuring as speakers in judicatories; …
- Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 12:15 Matthew Henry
[Paul] did not abate in his love to them, notwithstanding their unkindness and ingratitude to him; and therefore was contented and glad to take pains with them, though …