Category: PASSION Quotes

Quotes To Ponder

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We may not have literally killed God, but that is only from lack of opportunity. 
We all were born with the insatiable desire to eliminate God
so that we can take his place.
– Mike Wittmer

In his natural state, every man born into the world is a rank idolater.
— John Wesley

The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God,
and the greatest difficulty after conversion is to keep the heart with God.
– John Flavel

It is a mark of all the true children of God
that they long to magnify the God of their salvation.
– John Piper

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If you haven’t been jarred when you’re reading the Bible, you’re not reading it. —John Piper

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder
through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding
of what surrounds you.  This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
– J. I. Packer

The Spirit-filled walk demands, for instance, that we live in the Word of God
as a fish lives in the sea….  I mean that we should “meditate day and night”
in the sacred Word, that we should love it and feast upon it and digest it
every hour of the day and night.
– A. W. Tozer

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day
than I would, as it were, rinse my hands in several chapters. 
Oh to bathe in a text of Scripture till it saturates your heart!
– C. H. Spurgeon

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The difference between believing that God is gracious
and tasting that God is gracious is as different as
having a rational belief that honey is sweet
and having the actual sense of its sweetness.
– Jonathan Edwards

 God is love (I John 4:8) and God is holy (I Peter 1:16). 
He is neither more loving than he is holy, nor more holy than loving. 
God’s love is holy, and his holiness is love.  He is holy love and loving holiness.
– Michael Wittmer

 Those who do not fear God do not live in the reality of God.
– Gary Thomas

 God’s chief gift to those who seek him is himself.
— E.B. Pusey

The Need To Hate Sin

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The Puritans (and their admirers, past and present) actually maintained that only one who has come thoroughly to hate sin can turn wholeheartedly from it to Christ.  Contrition is necessitated not by the terms of the gospel, which calls us to Christ directly, but by the state of the fallen human heart.  God uses the law to pave the way for the gospel by making us see not our only guilt but also the ugliness, nastiness, and repulsiveness of our previous ways, so that we cease to love them; and that sets us free to love Christ when he calls us to follow him into different ways.
– David Wells in Turning To God

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The most important question we can ask about any habit or action or behavior:
Does it contradict the gospel?
– John Piper

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction. 
– Thomas Brooks

Patience!  Patience!  You are always in a hurry, but God is not.
– C.H. Spurgeon

He who often thinks of God will have a larger mind
than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe.
– J. I. Packer

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Selfishness seeks its own private happiness at the expense of others.
Love seeks its happiness in the happiness of the beloved.
– John Piper

Self is the most treacherous enemy, and the most insinuating deceiver in the world.
Of all other vices, it is both the hardest to find out, and the hardest to cure. 
– Richard Baxter

Men have dreamed of finding the fairy pleasure in the dark forest of sin. 
Carnal joys have danced before their eyes as temptingly as the mirage in the desert,
and they have pursued the phantom forms to their misery in this world,
and to their eternal ruin in the next.
– Charles Spurgeon

Conversion Does Not Stand Alone

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Conversion does not stand alone; it is the beginning of a lifelong journey of growing in Christ and being conformed to his image.  Discipleship must follow on conversion as living and breathing follow on birth.

The goal of conversion is nothing less than loving God with all one’s will, emotions, and thinking, whereas previously all of these faculties were engaged in self-love.

– David Wells in Turning to God

Church Quotes To Ponder

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Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve,
and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.
– Tim Keller

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good.
The bricks must be cemented together. 
– Corrie Ten Boom

When people leave a church because they do not fit the program,
it communicates a deadly message: that our commitment is to the work
and not to the person, that our unity is primarily in the work
and not in Christ and the gospel.
– Ajith Fernando

When you choose a church you are choosing the people
you want to have around you when you die.
– Arthur Holmes

 

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Here are some good quotes on growing in Christlikeness – something we must do and something Christ does in us:

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will –
that is what we are or will soon become.
— A.W. Tozer

Christlikeness is born in us when we deny ourselves in the small tasks of life.
– Gary Thomas

The tapestry of Christlikeness is laid down stitch by single stitch, as God weaves events, attitudes, relationships, and personal affliction through our daily experience.
– Gary Thomas

Life is an incremental series of becoming what you are, in Christ.
– John Piper