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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 53fe85a | Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to satan's attacks. | sanctification | John Piper | |
| 5500d0c | Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable. | maturation | John Piper | |
| df03f3f | Jesus - "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" (Colossians 2:9)." | John Piper | ||
| e4c11c6 | It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den. | John Piper | ||
| 3cb0320 | Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking. | love pride thinking | John Piper | |
| b76099c | Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. And ultimately, marriage is the display of God. | John Piper | ||
| d3a29c7 | The teaching that diminishes the urgency for reaching all the unreached peoples of the world with the only news that can save them is a teaching that opposes people. Listen to these severe words spoken by the apostle Paul about what it means to "oppose all mankind." He says that those who killed the Lord Jesus "drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved" (1 T.. | missions | John Piper | |
| 169ef38 | Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of God's timing or the goodness of God's guidance. It springs up in our hearts when our plan is interrupted or shattered. It may be prompted by a long wait in a checkout line or a sudden blow that knocks out half our dreams. The opposite of impatience is not a glib denial of loss. It's a deepening, ripening, peaceful willingness to wait for God in.. | John Piper | ||
| 933d28f | Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world. | John Piper | ||
| c778686 | So waiting is a holy work Of faith in God. Nor does there lurk Beneath the timing of his ways Some secret malice that displays Itself in holding back the flow Of future grace. God does not go From here to there by shortest routes; He makes a place for faith and doubts. Nor does he hasten on his way, But comes when it is best, today, Or maybe twenty years from now, Or more. | John Piper | ||
| d6f98ea | Genuine love is the glad effort to make others glad in God forever. Genuine love is being willing to suffer and die to draw as many people as we can into the pursuit and enjoyment of God. | John Piper | ||
| 5e72fb2 | The Apostle "Paul's antidote for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine. . . .everything that exists--including evil--is ordained by a holy and all-wise God to make the glory of Christ shine more brightly. We don't make God. He makes us. We don't decide what he is going to be like. He decides what he is going to be like. He decides what we are going to be like. He created the universe, and it has the meaning he gives it, not the meaning we gi.. | glory-of-god sin | John Piper | |
| 2887290 | The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts. | John Piper | ||
| ed22066 | Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened. It is not our prosperity but our holiness that he seeks with all his heart. And to that end, he rules the whole world...He is a big God for little people, and we have great cause to rejoice that, unbeknownst to them, all the kings and presidents and premiers and chancellors of the world follow the sovereign decrees of our Father in heaven, that we, the c.. | John Piper | ||
| 0ddd8ad | Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end. | John Piper | ||
| 0955e48 | Racial tensions are rife with pride--the pride of white supremacy, the pride of black power, the pride of intellectual analysis, the pride of anti-intellectual scorn, the pride of loud verbal attack, and the pride of despising silence, the pride that feels secure, and the pride that masks fear. Where pride holds sway, there is no hope for the kind of listening and patience and understanding and openness to correction that relationships requ.. | John Piper | ||
| 0531a75 | Asking questions is the key to understanding. | John Piper | ||
| 00023e8 | We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war. | John Piper | ||
| ed47977 | Gloria lui Dumnezeu nu consta doar in perceperea perfectiunii Sale de catre creatura Sa, deoarece fiinta creata poate sa perceapa puterea si intelepciunea lui Dumnezeu si totusi sa nu se bucure de ea, ci s-o urasca. | John Piper | ||
| 3d5a561 | One of these days lightning is going to fill the sky from the rising of the sun to its setting, and there is going to appear in the clouds one like a son of man with his mighty angels in flaming fire. And we will see him clearly. And whether from terror or | John Piper | ||
| fc1614e | And because his love for you never had a beginning, it can have no end. | John Piper | ||
| 4e519e5 | Love is the overflow of joy in God that gladly meets the needs of others. | John Piper | ||
| 8217104 | The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19). | life living open-mindedness word | John Piper | |
| 05a4b53 | There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS | John Piper | ||
| 5aef41e | We had been so unlucky. By the time we had finally learnt to read properly, there had been nothing left for us to read. | Dai Sijie | ||
| 82a6da2 | common soldier must fear his officer more than the enemy': Frederick the Great) | John Keegan | ||
| 1e9ea04 | The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation. Its circumstances - the dissatisfaction of the German-speaking peoples with their standing among other nations - were the same, and so were its immediate causes, a dispute between a German-speaking ruler and a Slav neighbour. | John Keegan | ||
| ccf5f8f | BROADBENT [stiffly]. Devil is rather a strong expression in that connexion, Mr Keegan. KEEGAN. Not from a man who knows that this world is hell. But since the word offends you, let me soften it, and compare you simply to an ass. [Larry whitens with anger]. BROADBENT [reddening]. An ass! KEEGAN [gently]. You may take it without offence from a madman who calls the ass his brother--and a very honest, useful and faithful brother too. The ass, s.. | humor inspirational religion | George Bernard Shaw | |
| fa4b30a | Repetition and familiarity work. What is repeated becomes familiar, and this becomes a part of us. Our own culture understands this, but alas, not always the church. Far too many equate ritual with spiritual dryness. True, ritual and liturgy can be dead--even using the terms can raise hackles--but only when the significance and power of those rituals are forgotten. Spiritual death is not a property of ritual itself. To the contrary, ritual .. | religion ritual | Peter Enns | |
| 35a3d00 | Doubt is God's instrument, will arrive in God's time, and will come from unexpected places--places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it--patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time. | Peter Enns | ||
| d2209f6 | It is wholly incomprehensible to think that thousands of years ago God would have felt constrained to speak in a way that would be meaningful only to Westerners several thousand years later. To do so borders on modern, Western arrogance. | Peter Enns | ||
| 21145ee | I've learned to accept this paradox: a holy book that more often than not doesn't act very much like you'd expect it, but more like a book written two thousand to three thousand years ago would act. I expect the Bible to reflect fully the ancient settings in which it was written, and therefore not act as a script that can simply be dropped into our lives without a lot of thought and wisdom. The Bible must be thought through, pondered, tried.. | Peter Enns | ||
| a246c7b | The spiritual disconnection many feel today stems precisely from expecting (or being told to expect) the Bible to be holy, perfect, and clear, when in fact after reading it they find it to be morally suspect, out of touch, confusing, and just plain weird. | Peter Enns | ||
| 99595cc | getting the Bible right and getting Jesus right are not the same thing. | Peter Enns | ||
| 58f5a7e | In the New Testament, God's steadfast love and faithfulness are seen, not in an act of deliverance from foreign enemies, but in sending the Son and raising Him from the dead to enact a global rescue mission (Romans 8:3.) Jesus is God's supreme, grand, climactic act of faithfulness. Not only that, but "faithful" also describes Jesus. Paul writes, "We know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but in faith in Jesus Christ" (G.. | Peter Enns | ||
| ab85dfa | BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS are about as certain as you can be about these things that the conquest of Canaan as the Bible describes did not happen: no mass invasion from the outside by an Israelite army, and no extermination of Canaanites as God commanded. | Peter Enns | ||
| 833d962 | We should linger here for a moment, for it summarizes a main theme of Paul's letters: God's unexpected move--Jesus's death and resurrection--places Jews and Gentiles on equal footing with God. | Peter Enns | ||
| a561f60 | The Bible--from back to front--is the story of God told from the limited point of view of real people living at a certain place and time. | Peter Enns | ||
| 4a5210c | I mean, if we try to explain Jesus's handling of his Bible in terms of how many Christians today feel the Bible "ought" to be read, Jesus will look like one of my college Bible students, playing free association with the Bible. Or worse, we may try to find some way of taking Jesus out of his ancient Jewish world and making him look more like a suburban Protestant, an urban hipster, a tea party spokesman, and so on." | Peter Enns | ||
| 9369419 | Or, to put it another way, presuppositional apologetics--such as that developed by Francis Schaeffer, but also by Cornelius Van Til and, to a degree, Herman Dooeyeweerd--rejects classical apologetics precisely because presuppositionalism recognizes the truth of Derrida's claim that everything is interpretation (though I am admittedly radicalizing their intuitions). | derrida interpretation philosophy postmodernism presuppositional-apologetics | James K.A. Smith | |
| ed267d3 | Sealed off from enchantment, the modern buffered self is also sealed off from significance, left to ruminate in a stew of its own ennui. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| e0fb755 | It's like we have moral muscles that are trained in the same way our biological muscles are trained when we practice a golf swing or piano scales. Now | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 56e09ab | As Blaise Pascal put it in his famous wager: "You have to wager. It is not up to you, you are already committed."7 You can't not bet your life on something. You can't not be headed somewhere. We live leaning forward, bent on arriving at the place we long for." | James K.A. Smith | ||
| bc9eeeb | Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative. | narrative worldview | James K.A. Smith |