McCheyne’s Counsel to A Young Man

“Do not forget the inner man, the heart. The cavalry officer knows that his life depends upon his saber, so he keeps it clean. Every stain he wipes off with the greatest care. You are God’s chosen instrument. According to your purity, so shall be your success. It is not great talent; it is not [...]

A Tidbit from my Sister

Here is a great quote from my sister’s blog. I don’t think it ever crossed her mind that anyone would quote her, and that’s exactly why it’s so great.
I suppose accepting and doing the “little things in life” with joy and gladness is what the Christian life is all about.
I am away at [...]

Veggie Tales Founder Said What?

A surprising quote from a world-renowned cartoon animator…
“The world doesn’t learn about God by watching Christian movies. The world learns about God by watching Christians.”
- Phillip Visher, Veggie Tales founder
What About Context?
To learn the context of this quote I encourage you to listen to Phil’s hard-hitting message that he delivered at the Moody Bible Institutes Founder’s [...]

Mrs. Charles on Church History

“If church history be anything different from secular history, it should be the result of Christian truth speaking through the lives of Christian men; the story of the struggle between selfishness and divine love, of the Life which has pierced through and outlived the corruption and decay of States; the echo of the accents of [...]

Thyself Reckon Dead

Thyself reckon dead, and then thou shalt fly
Free, free, from the prison of earth to the sky!
Spring may come, but on granite will grow no green thing;
It was barren in winter, ’tis barren in spring;
And granite man’s heart is, till grace intervene,
And, crushing it, clothe the long barren with green.
When the fresh breath of Jesus [...]

Zwemer, Luther, Nygren on Agape

“Love in the Christian sense is primarily God’s own love. ‘God is nothing but an abyss of eternal love.’* Christian love is spontaneous, overflowing. It is not like the world’s love, evoked by a desire for its object. It is without respect of persons. It is love even for our enemies.”
Samuel Zwemer, Islam and [...]

Watson on Loving and Loathing

“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.”
-Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance

Let Your Faith Begin At Home

“You may not be called to evangelize the people in any particular locality, but certainly you are called to witness to your own servants, your own family and acquaintances. Let your faith begin at home.”
-C.H. Spurgeon,
commenting on John 1:41,
“He first found his own brother Simon.”
Morning and Evening, February 19

A Principal of Teaching

“If you want to build a ship, don’t just give instructions to your men to gather wood and do the work. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
-Antoine de St.-Exupéry

Taylor on Mission Strategy

“Let us in everything not sinful become Chinese…”
-James Hudson Taylor, Founder of China Inland Mission

On Predicting the Future

“We predict the future. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
-A secret conspirator on The X-Files

Chesterton on Martyrs and Suicides

“A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside of him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide is a man who cares so little for anything outside him, that he wants to see the last of everything. One wants something to begin: the other wants everything to end.”
-G.K. Chesterton, [...]

Tolkien Comments on Modernity

“Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour.”
-J.R.R Tolkien

Pink on the Heinousness of Sin

“Here [at Calvary] we are shown the fearful lengths to which sin will go. In its first manifestation it took the form of suicide, for Adam destroyed his own spiritual life; next we see it in the form of fratricide—Cain slaying his own brother; but at the Cross the climax is reached in deicide—man crucifying [...]

Bonhoeffer on the Fragments of Life

“It finally comes to this, if one thinks about the fragment of our life, how the whole was really planned and thought out, and of what material it consists. There are finally fragments which still belong to the rubbish heap, and there are those fragments which are meaningful only when looked at in the perspective [...]

Stott on Mind Renewal

“Has God created us rational beings, and shall we deny our humanity which he has given us? Has God spoken to us, and shall we not listen to his words? Has God renewed our mind through Christ, and shall we not think with it? Is God going to judge us by his Word, and shall [...]

Spurgeon on the Condenscension of God

“God’s making Himself little is the cause of our being made great. We are so little that if God should display his greatness without condescension, we would be trampled under His feet; but God, who must stoop to view the skies and bow to see what angels do, turns His eye yet lower and looks [...]

Spurgeon on Christian Living

The Gospel is a very fearless Gospel; it boldly proclaims the truth, whether men like it or not. We must be equally faithful and unflinching. But the Gospel is also very gentle. We see this in Jesus: “a bruised reed he will not break.” [Matt. 12:20] Some professing Christians are sharper than a thorn-hedge; such [...]

Sobran on Being Silenced

“The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.”
-Joe Sobran

Chesterton on The Paradoxes of Christianity

This will not exactly be like our usual ‘Quote of the Week’; rather, this will be a recapitulation of G.K. Chesterton. Back in my April post, ‘The Greatest Paradox of All’, I mentioned that I got the idea for our blog name from G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy. Sometime before or after writing that post I reviewed [...]