- True Wisdom John Newton
I would ask you to pray for us, if I were sure you prayed for yourself; but whether you will thank me for it or not I must tell you that I pray for you often. Oh! how …
- The Vice of the Age John Newton
It is not reasoning but neglecting to reason, and to extend conclusions to their just consequences, that I condemn as the vice of the age.
- Eschew Obfuscation Daniel Kahneman
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. … In an article titled ‘Consequences of Erudite …
- James Madison on the History of all Governments James Madison
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It …
- Media and the Importance of Issues Daniel Kahneman
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory–and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in …
- Communion with Christ Joel Beeke, Mark Jones
We have communion with Christ in His work because ’there is almost nothing that Christ hath done, which is a spring of that grace whereof we speak, but we are said to do …
- God Has Spoken Herman Bavinck
A theologian’s confidence comes from the conviction: God has spoken.
- Mary and Martha Kevin DeYoung
Do you see how Luke places the story of Mary and Martha after all this activity? This episode isn’t here by accident. I believe God wants us to see that if we heal the …
- Sanctification of Sleep Donald A. Carson
Our physical existence is tied up to our spiritual well-being, to our mental outlook, to our relationships with others, including our relationship with God. Sometimes the …
- The Church Under the Cross Herman Bavinck
The Revelation of John is nevertheless primarily a book of consolation for ’the church under the cross’ of his time, to urge it to persevere in the struggle and to …
- Job’s Friends Joel Beeke
The best thing Job’s friends did was sit with him, weep with him, mourn with him, and keep silence with him for seven days.
- Favorable Conditions to Learn C. S. Lewis
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
- C. S. Lewis on Doctrinal Books C. S. Lewis
For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await …
- Tim Keller on the Lord of the Rings Timothy Keller
When people ask me how often I have read The Lord of the Rings, the answer is, I actually never stop. I’m always in it.
- Prayer for Unity Herman Bavinck
Christ’s prayer for unity was not born of unfamiliarity with the history of God’s people nor from his inability to govern it. His prayer is the guarantee that unity …
- The Bright Morning Star Thomas Watson
What is it to know all the motions of the orbs and influences of the stars and in the meantime to be ignorant of Christ, the bright Morning Star? What is it to understand …
- Christ and Adam Herman Bavinck
Christ does not bring us back to the point on the road where Adam stood but has covered the whole journey for us to the very end.
- Yahweh Elohim Herman Bavinck
The gnostic and Marcionite disjunction between the Old Testament God of wrath and vengeance and the New Testament God of love and mercy is unknown to Scripture. Yahweh …
- Achieving Holiness Douglas Moo
Holiness of life, then, is achieved neither by our own unaided effort – the error of ‘moralism’ or ’legalism’ – nor by the Spirit apart from our participation – as some …
- Christ Becomes What We Are Douglas Moo
Christ becomes what we are so that we might become what Christ is.
- Not to Us Charles Spurgeon
Yet it is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-‘Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be glory.’ It is a lesson which …
- Mothers with a Triumphant Faith Joseph Hopper
That mother through the years had endured and won in the Christian race, who had a supreme desire and joy in having her children to bear the message glorious, wrote me …
- Resentment and Impatience John Sanderson
Our resentment is against the timetable which the sovereign God has assigned us, a schedule based on a plan of which we are usually ignorant. It is this ignorance which …
- Triune Salvation Herman Bavinck
It is the triune God—Father, Son, and Spirit—who together conceive, determine, carry out, and complete the entire work of Salvation. The benefit to the believer is in …
- Bavinck on Crime Herman Bavinck
If the state’s only right to act against criminals is for self-protection and to improve them, how will we stop those who wish to deal with all kinds of sick people in …
- The Purpose of 1 Corinthians 13 Phil Ryken
Instead of preparing people for marriage, then, the apostle [in 1 Coronthians 13] was trying desperately to show a church full of self-centered Christians that there is a …
- Christ Greater than Adam Herman Bavinck
In Paul we must never overlook the strong emphasis on the superiority of Christ’s gift when compared to the consequence of Adam’s fall.
- Psalm 103 Charles Spurgeon
There is too much in [Psalm 103], for a thousand pens to write, it is one of those all-comprehending Scriptures which is a Bible in itself, and it might alone almost …
- Glory of Christ John Owen
The glory of Christ is also seen in the stability and security that is given to the whole new creation. The first creation was glorious. Everything depended on God under …
- Sanctified for Unity Frank Theilman
…in Philippians, Paul affirms that unity is important and that when it is broken over issues that are not vital, the sanctity of the Christian community itself is …
- Planning to Give Kevin DeYoung
Almost no one will give faithfully and generously without planning to give faithfully and generously.
- Disagreeability of Beards C. S. Lewis
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly …
- Sin in the Cloister Herman Bavinck
Monks take the sin in their hearts with them into the cloister.
- As If the World Were All John Owen
Men walk and talk as if the world were all, when comparatively it is nothing.
- Trueman on Humility Carl Trueman
Acknowledging that God works in history means that we acknowledge that he has worked in the past; and acknowledging that he has worked in the past means that we …
- Civility for Salvation? Thomas Watson
Civility is a good staff to walk among men, but it is a bad ladder to climb to heaven.
- Al Mohler on the Church and Marriage Al Mohler
The U.S. Supreme Court may well decide the future of marriage as a legal institution, but the church must hold to marriage as far more, but not less than, a legal …
- Not a Thought in Her Head George Orwell
She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan.
- Calvin on Prayer John Calvin
We must, therefore, maintain both of these truths, that He freely anticipates our wishes, and yet that we obtain by prayer what we ask.
- Plutarch on Pursuit of Money and Children Plutarch
Good people, what are you after? Why in such deadly earnest about making money, while troubling so little about the sons to whom you are to leave it?’
- Churchly Trendiness David Wells
Today’s churchly trendiness is really yesterday’s unbelief.
- The Doctrine of Providence Herman Bavinck
The doctrine of providence is not a philosophical system but a confession of faith that, notwithstanding appearances, only God–by his almighty and everywhere present …
- Lacking Fellowship? Rosaria Butterfield
At least as it regard the handful of families that showed immediate excitement and then after a month changed heart, this is what ’lacking fellowship’; means. It means …
- Bavinck on Elihim Herman Bavinck
Elohim is not presented in Genesis 1 as a cosmic sculptor who uses preexisting material to produce a work of art, but as One who merely by speaking, by uttering a word of …
- Serve One Another Apostle Peter
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.
- The World Will End Tony Reinke
The world will end. So kill sin. Pray with a clear head. Forgive quickly. Love eagerly. Open your home. Engage your gifts. (1 Pet. 4:7–11)
- Creator Creature Distinction Herman Bavinck
Affirming the distinction between the Creator and his creature is the starting point of true religion.
- Calvin's Prayer John Calvin
By your Spirit destroy the wickedness of our heart, and restore us to a sound mind, that we may ever cleave to you with a true and sincere heart, that being fortified by …
- Our Innate Disease John Calvin
It is, as it were, an innate disease in mankind to seek reputation by blaming others.
- Sure Mark of an Unliterary Man C. S. Lewis
The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers ‘I’ve read it already’ to be a conclusive argument against reading a work.