Category: PASSION Quotes

Quotes To Ponder

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Here are some good quotes to think about.  The first relates well to yesterday’s post.

You don’t have your life before you. It’s not yours. You were bought with a price.
Before you is a stewardship for the Owner.
– John Piper

I want to remind the church that
we have been saved for the sake of God-exalting good works. 
We have been saved not merely to avoid evil, but to do good.
– John Piper

God saved us by his grace that we might be an amplifier
for the beauty of Jesus to all peoples.
– Louie Giglio

God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely
that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble
if He doesn’t come through.
– Francis Chan

The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship.
– D. A. Carson

Christianity is self-denial … for a higher joy.
– John Piper

Quotes To Ponder

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Here are several quotes that revolve around the question:
What do you desire?

You tend to become like what you admire. Admiration breeds imitation.
– John Piper

The goal of life is to forget me and be thrilled with him.
– John Piper

When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable
and my thirst after holiness more unquenchable.
– David Brainerd

We care for one thing: Does the Jesus Christ, the Lord
of heaven and earth, approve of what I am saying and doing?
– John Piper

When the day comes that only righteousness pleases you,
on that day you may do as you please – with no regrets.
– John Piper

Quotes To Ponder

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Here are some great quotes addressing the issue of sin:

God’s wounds cure, sin’s kisses kill.
– William Gurnall

Sin doesn’t strike all at once. It kills slowly and persistently.
– Stephen Altrogge

What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath.
– Thomas Watson

I have never heard of a sin being committed without knowing full well
that I had the seed of it within myself.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beware of no man more than of yourself;
we carry our worst enemies within us.
– C.H. Spurgeon

Quotes To Ponder

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
– Flannery O’Connor

A snake bites Paul, so they think he’s a criminal.
He doesn’t fall dead, so they think he’s a god.
Beware of human polls.
– John Piper

‎A man can no more possess a private religion
than he can possess a private sun and moon.
– G.K. Chesterton

Our greatest fear should not be of failure
but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
– Francis Chan

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions
to combat only the sins and temptations of others.  
– D.A. Carson

Waiting isn’t just about what you are hoping for at the end of the wait,
but also about what you will become as you wait.
– Paul Tripp

It ill becomes you to make much of dress and show,
when you are so soon to see the face that was crowned with thorns.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Family Quotes To Ponder

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The Christian is supposed to love his neighbor,
and since his wife is his nearest neighbor,
she should be his deepest love.
– Martin Luther

Let the measure of God’s grace to you in the cross of Christ
be the measure of your grace to your spouse.
– John Piper

Which of you by being angry can add a single hour to his span of life?
Or any affection to your marriage?
– John Piper

God often disapproves of his children’s behavior.
But he never treats us with contempt.
Imitate him in your disapproving.
– John Piper

Happy is that family where the worship of God
is constantly and conscientiously maintained.
– John Newton

Walking With God

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I’ve started reading Gary Thomas’ challenging book, Holy Available.  Here are a few quotes so far that have caught my eye:

The grand point is not to wear the garb, nor use the brogue of religion, but to possess the life of God within, and feel and think as Jesus would have done because of that inner life.  Small is the value of external religion unless it is the outcome of a life within.
-Charles Spurgeon

Christianity is not merely a philosophical theory or a moral code, but involves a direct sharing in divine life and glory, a transforming union with God “face to face.”
– Kallistos Ware

If we don’t think about God, pray to God, listen for God’s voice, and consciously serve God, by definition we live an ungodly life.  We usually think of “ungodly” as being against God, but ungodly can also be a life that simply ignores God or – out of busyness, indifference, religiosity, or apathy – simply doesn’t tap into God.”
– Gary Thomas

So are we just going through the outward motions, or are we really walking with God?

Prayer Quotes To Ponder

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Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy.
– John Piper

 Whatever be the ground of one’s distress,
it should drive him to, not from, God.
– John Flavel

 When you stop trying to control your life and instead allow your anxieties and problems to bring you to God in prayer, you shift from worrying to watching.  You watch God weave his patterns in the story of your life.  Instead of trying to be out front, designing your life, you realize you are inside God’s drama.  As you wait, you begin to see him work, and your life begins to sparkle with wonder.  You are learning to trust again.
– Paul Miller

 Because God is the living God, He can hear;
because He is a loving God, He will hear; because
He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.
– Charles Spurgeon

 I put my prayers into Christ’s hands;
and what may I not expect from them,
when I have such an Advocate?
Oh, be sure not to ask a little from God!
– Thomas Adam

 The habit of spreading before God our soul’s needs
is an evidence that we have the spirit of adoption.
– J. C. Ryle

 If we do not delight on God’s presence and nearness here on earth, why would we want to go to heaven where he is the centerpiece of everything?
– Jim Cymbala

Quotes To Ponder

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Here are some good quotes to ponder.  Each of them also relates to the theme we have been considering in the last two posts of our worth versus God’s worth.

God’s love for you that makes much of His glory is greater love for you than if He made you your greatest treasure.
– John Piper

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.
– D. A. Carson

Faith is driven by a thankful joy that, because of Christ, God is for us when we deserve no praise at all.
– John Piper

For every look at self, take ten looks at Christ.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Scholarship or Insurrection?

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I want to share and ponder one more quote from John Piper’s book, Think, that really caught my attention:

If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.

What do you think? 

And do you think we can apply this statement to everyday thinking about everyday life?  That is: if I am thinking without reference to God’s glory, I am being rebellious.

If that is so, it seems to me we are much more rebellious and sinful than we probably thought.  And it raises some good self-reflection questions: 

Why do you think about what you think about?  For God’s glory?  Or for man’s applause?  To please people?  To impress yourself?  For your own glory? 

And then there is Jesus who always sought to to do will of the Father – to live for God’s glory even in his thinking.  And we realize we don’t measure up and never could and desperately need him to be our Savior.