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| c375026 | Such experiences can make us bewail how the Western world gives itself over annually to its Claus-mass or commerce-mass. We celebrate a reworked pagan Saturnalia of epic proportions, one in which the only connection with the incarnation is semantic. Santa is worshiped, not the Savior; pilgrims go to the stores with credit cards, not to the manger with gifts. It is the feast of indulgence, not of the incarnation. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 674334b | Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it. | religion-christianity | Sinclair B. Ferguson | |
| ae2e072 | Our problem, like Jonah's, does not lie in the parts of Scripture we find difficult to understand. Like him, we turn away from the word of the Lord that we do understand. We do not read it, we do not love it, we have become almost incapable of meditating upon it; we are careless, if not actually callous about submitting to it. | religion-christianity | Sinclair B. Ferguson | |
| 99ef1bf | The invisible is more substantial than the visible; ?he future shapes the past; The new is more fundamental than the old. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| b5c4261 | There is a kind of orthodoxy in which the several loci of systematic theology, or stages of redemptive history, are all in place, but that lacks the life of the whole, just as arms, legs, torso, head, feet, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth may all be present--while the body as a whole lacks energy and perhaps life itself. The form of godliness is not the same as its power. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| c0fbe0a | But, as Paul is at pains to stress, the law is good, and just, and holy.50 And we need to understand, sense, feel, and then delight in the grace of law.51 For unless we are persuaded that God has shown his grace in his law as well as in his Son, all we will hear and see at Sinai is thunder and lightning. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| c3bb8a5 | God demonstrated His wisdom in that, even as people in Europe began despising the gospel, He was already preparing to go somewhere else. | joel-beeke michael-haykin revival missionary missions europe | Sinclair B. Ferguson | |
| 66df3e3 | If you are going to resist the desires of the flesh (negative), you will need to live in the power of the Holy Spirit and walk according to his disciplines (positive). | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 6b51dd1 | Growth in grace sometimes depends on the relatively mundane expedient of knowing ourselves well enough to recognise what are the points of lowest resistance in our lives. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| e88df19 | The Father of Glory does not lurk behind His Son with sinister intent to do us ill, restrained only by the cruel and bloody sacrifice His Son has made! No, a thousand times no! The Father loves us in the love of the Son and the love of the Spirit (John 16:27). | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 1080e66 | If I insist on knowing exactly what God is doing and what He plans to do with my future, if I demand to understand His ways with me in the past, I can never be content until I am equal with God. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 0bd9934 | Peter's life can only be properly understood as the transformation of a man from what he was into what Christ intended him to be. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| f0e8600 | bears repeating: in Eve's case antinomianism (her opposition to and rejection of God's law) was itself an expression of her legalism! | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 5084bf7 | The heart of the Christian life is the crucified and risen Christ; the heart of the Christin experience is fellowship with him; the key to Christian growth is by sharing in all the implications of his death and resurrection. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 6bc5c7c | And he watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son. Therefore, indeed, I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 217db87 | The heart of the Christian life is the crucified and risen Christ; the heart of the Christian experience is fellowship with him; the key to Christian growth is by sharing in all the implications of his death and resurrection. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 02687e6 | These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve's rejection of God's law (antinomianism) was in fact the fruit of her distorted view of God (legalism). | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 7ac39ab | The message of the incarnate Christ is glorious indeed, but it must never be severed from the message of the indwelling Christ. He who came for us as a baby now dwells in us as the Lord of glory through His Spirit. That is His gift to us. The indwelling Christ seeks one gift from you in return. You. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| c19255f | The fruit of the Spirit is love. But love is the most costly of fruits. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| fcf0e04 | In acting, there can be a great discrepancy between the part which is played and the reality of the life which lies behind it. Paul suggests that the same can be true of faith. We can profess much and possess little. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| df25a1a | To become a Christian believer is to be brought into a reality far grander than anything we could ever have imagined. It means communion with the triune God. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 4273484 | Christianity in China from 150 years prior to the time of its inscription, circa 780. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| 1cb8660 | Sincerity on its own is always inadequate before God. But faith without it is impossible. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| bc13cb6 | Spiritual growth is measured not only by external indications but by the amount of opposition which has to be overcome in order to express them. | Sinclair B. Ferguson | ||
| e42e210 | we know a good deal about the free person, including many things about what he believes and how he acts. His desires are directed by reason and his deeds informed by virtue. | Steven Nadler | ||
| 1a2654a | The virtuous person is able to determine what is truly conducive to his well-being and what is not. | Steven M. Nadler | ||
| 182ad27 | A desire to do good for others and help them in their striving is generated by one's own living according to reason. "The desire to do good generated in us by our living according to the guidance of reason, I call morality" | Steven Nadler | ||
| 333dee6 | A man who is guided by reason" will have "strength of character." He "hates no one, is angry with no one, envies no one, is indignant with no one, scorns no one, and is not at all proud"; he will avoid "whatever he thinks is troublesome and evil, and moreover, whatever seems immoral, dreadful, unjust and dishonorable" | Steven Nadler | ||
| d3fdd02 | His freedom consists precisely in the fact that the adequate cause of what he thinks, what he desires, and what he does lies within him, namely, his adequate ideas and his power of persevering. | Steven M. Nadler | ||
| b50d9b7 | Religion as we know it, Spinoza argues in the work's preface, is nothing more than organized superstition. Power-hungry ecclesiastics prey on the naivete of citizens, taking advantage of their hopes and fears in the face of the vicissitudes of nature and the unpredictability of fortune to gain control over their beliefs and their daily lives. The preface of the Treatise both makes clear Spinoza's contempt for sectarian religions and opens t.. | Steven Nadler | ||
| 93ede28 | Thus, Spinoza can say that while good and evil will remain relative to some standard, the standard itself is not relative to just anyone's conception of what the good life is but is in conformity with human nature itself. | Steven M. Nadler | ||
| 608ca85 | Isini ciddiyetle, canli ve gercek bir cosku ile ele al, yasaminin buyuk bolumunu aklini ve ruhunu gelistirmeye ada. (Spinoza) | Steven Nadler | ||
| 7b398ce | It is a life guided by reason and based in knowledge and understanding, where an individual does only what is truly useful for himself but also aids others in their own pursuit of perfection. The resulting moral philosophy is virtue-oriented. What matters most is not the actions that one performs, or even the intentions that one has, but above all the kind of person one is and the character one possesses. | Steven M. Nadler | ||
| 9216a3a | Thus, our ordinary approach to labeling natural things as 'perfect' or 'imperfect' derives "more from prejudice than from true knowledge of those things." | Steven M. Nadler | ||
| a8a2359 | The more each one strives, and is able, to preserve his being, the more he is endowed with virtue | Steven M. Nadler | ||
| 87f208b | It is only when one can transform oneself from this forlorn condition of passivity to something like an active and self-sufficient existence that one can claim to be free, happy, and, ultimately, blessed. | Steven M. Nadler | ||
| 2334855 | many) and | Ruth Rendell | ||
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| ad9c44e | Ruth Rendell, Jonathon Kellerman, Len Deighton . . . clever writers, all of them. No romance, or supernatural, or street-level cop novels here. Psychological mysteries. Suspense. Kellerman was even himself a psychologist. Quinn figured the readers of such books got their enjoyment out of trying to outwit the writers. Would Ida or her late husband be the sort to write critical Amazon | John Lutz |