Spiritual people are people who have taken the log out of their eye insofar as they know themselves, they have repented of their sins and cast themselves on the mercy of Jesus and depend on the Holy Spirit (John Piper) Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom....
When you have a god that is a thing, a god that you can use, an object, neighbors also become things, something to use, objects. With an impersonal god, you end up with an impersonal neighbor. (Eugene Peterson) When the LORD is God, we will love our neighbor in our...
It is in the face of death that the riddle of a human existence grows most acute. Not only is man tormented by pain and the advancing deterioration of his body, but even more so by a dread of perpetual extinction. (James Denison quoting Second Vatican Council in 1965)...
If society deteriorates and its standards decline until it becomes like a dark night or a stinking fish, there is no sense in blaming society; that is what happens when fallen men and women are left to themselves, and human selfishness is unchecked. (John Stott)...
Vagueness about the object of our praise inevitably leads to making our own praise the object (Michael Horton). Nowhere is the modern church more worldly than in its breathless idolizing of such modern notions as change, relevance, innovation, and being on the right...
Men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. They seek to criticize, not to correct. Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others (St. Augustine) One of the greatest...
