Ten minutes’ praying
is better than
a year’s murmuring.
– Charles Spurgeon
Category: PASSION Quotes
Little Hidden Murders
Just because I haven’t shed someone’s blood, doesn’t mean I’m innocent. My heart and mind have harbored thoughts and feelings that are as foul as murder. We kill people all the time with our contemptuous anger, our animosity and malice, our hostility and gossip.
Little hidden murders.
– Alistair Begg in Pathway to Freedom
Works of Art
What makes life so precious is that every human being is made in God’s image. God has put his stamp on every one of us the way a great artist signs his name to a work of art. Therefore, to damage a life is to deface one of God’s masterpieces.
– Philip Graham Ryken in Written in Stone
Prayer Quote of the Week
Cease to pray and thou wilt begin to sin.
– William Gurnall
Learning Respect
The great need for this [fifth] command is to be found in the fact that we are by nature, rebels. We have a natural dislike for authority. It is within the family that children are to learn respect for authority.
– Alistair Begg in Pathway to Freedom
Prayer Quote of the Week
The prayer of the saints is never self-important,
but always God-important.
– Oswald Chambers
Submitting to Authority
One of American’s defining characteristics is its rugged individualism. Autonomous individuals often recoil at the thought of submitting to authority. Yet such individualism, or self-rule, is at odds with a prominent teaching of Scripture to submit to the authority of God and the authorities whom he appoints. Submitting to authority is the primary focus of the fifth commandment.
– J. V. Fesko in The Rule of Love
All Our Time Is A Gift
We must honor God not only by our loyalty (first commandment) and thought-life (second commandment) and words (third commandment), but also by our use of time, in a rhythm of toil and rest; six days for work crowned by one day for worship. God’s claim on our Sabbaths reminds us that all our time is his gift, to be given back to him and used for him.
– J. I. Packer in Growing in Christ
In the Image of a Working and Resting God
What does the fourth commandment mean for the Christian? Like the Israelites, we are made in the image of a working, resting God. We still need to work, we still need to rest, and we can still receive the creation blessing of God’s holy day.
– Philip Graham Ryken in Written in Stone
Prayer Quote of the Week
Turn everything that is a care into a prayer.
– Charles Spurgeon
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