For dinner time edification, our family is going through Knowing God by J.I. Packer. This was one of the first Christian books I read, and it laid a firm foundation for much of what I believe today as a Christian. Here are some quotes from Chapter One, "The Study of God." If we pursue theological …
Category: Quotes
Bonhoeffer Quotes #3
Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. Grace and Peace
A Good Quote
People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of …
Bonhoeffer Quotes #2
Some more quotes to ponder, from The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer: No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more …
Bonhoeffer Quotes
Some quotes to ponder, from The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Perhaps it would be just as well to ask ourselves whether we do not in fact often act as obstacles to Jesus and his Word. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those …
The Silence of Adam
I usually avoid men's conferences and books written for men. So, when the men's group I was in a few years ago selected The Silence of Adam by Larry Crabb as the book we would be in for a few months, I was skeptical. I was hoping for something with meat in it, not fluff. …
Earth Day 2006 #2
A good internet article summarizing a Christian perspective on the environment is Christian Environmentalism by Dr. Ray Bohlin of Probe Ministries. Here are some quotes from the article: What we fail to realize is that Christians have a sacred responsibility to the earth and the creatures within it. The earth is being affected by humans …
Why Do I Teach High School Students?
A quote from a letter by Benjamin Vaughan to Benjamin Franklin, 1783: Influence upon the private character, late in life, is not only an influence late in life, but a weak influence. It is in youth that we plant our chief habits and prejudices; it is in youth that we take our party as to …
A Darkened Mind
A quote from C.S. Lewis which applies to many areas of life: All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for. From Perelandra, p. 218 in my edition.
The Purpose of the Universe
Galaxies, Hubble Space Telescope ultra deep field, NASA/JPL There are an estimated 1021 stars in the universe. Doesn't this make Earth, and the humans who inhabit it, seem rather insignificant? Yes, and no. Consider this quote from John Piper: "Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does …
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