Quotes Worth Quoting
Apologetics
"There are many who preach about the Lord Jesus Christ to no effect and we can see why. They have no doctrine of sin, they never convict or convince people of sin. They always hold Christ before men and say that it is enough. But it is not enough; for the effect of sin upon us is such that we shall never fly to Christ until we realize that we are paupers... The first two essentials to salvation and to rejoicing in Christ are the consciousness of our need, and the consciousness of the riches of grace that are in Christ."{Lloyd Jones, D. Martyn, (1959) }Sermon on the Mount Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, ( pp. 199,200).
Please see Genesis 1:28-30
'Science' is man's disciplined study and understanding of the phenomena of His world.
'Technology' is the implementation of this knowledge in the effective ordering and development of the earth and its resources, for the greater good of all earth's inhabitants...
This two fold commission to subdue and have dominion, to conquer and rule, embraces all productive human activities. Science and technology,research and development, theory and application, study and practice, and so forth,
are various ways of expressing these two concepts." (Morris, Henry Dr. Pp. 76,77).
Bereavement- Outstanding Puritan Theologian, John Owen, "Not long after his removal to Fordham, he was married to a lady by the name of Rooke. But nearly all the information that has descended to us regarding this union, from the earlier biographies, amounts to this, -----that the lady bore to him eleven children, of whom, except one daughter died in early youth. This only daughter became the wife of a Welsh gentleman; but the union proving unhappy, she returned to her kindred and to her father' house," and soon after died of consumption." {Goold, editor. The Works of John Owen, volume I. {The life of Dr. Owen, 1850, reprint 1965, London, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, p. 33.}
Depression, Anxiety Disorders-Insanity
"It is all very well for those who are in robust health and full of spirits to blame those whose live are sicklied o're with the pale cast of melancholy, but the evil is a real as a gaping wound., and all the more hard to bear because it lies so much in the region of the soul that to the inexperienced it appears to be a mere matter of fancy and diseased imagination. Reader never ridicule the nervous and the hypochondriac, their pains are real; though much of the evil lies in the imagination is is not imaginary." Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, 3 vols. (Newark, De.:Cornerstone, 1869, 2.132)
Ed. - Today we know much more about hypochondrias and body dysmorphia. ( Please see the DSM IV TM, 300.7, Hypochondria's and 300.7 Body Dysmorphic Disorder
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Angela Monet
Perkins Sorrow that comes by melancholy ariseth only of that humour annoying the bodie: but this other sorrow ariseth of a man’s sinnes, for which his conscience accuses him. Melancholie may be cured by physicke: this sorrow cannot be cured by anything but the blood of Christ. - Perkins, William, (1966) William Perkins 1558-1602. English Puritanism His Pioneer Work on Casuistry and the Whole Treatise of Cases of Conscience. Generic: Nieuwkoop and B. Degraff
And in and through it all, Mr. Taylor himself was assailed by such depression, loneliness and forebodings, due in part to illness, that one stands amazed at the record merely-the little that could be put into letters of those long painful months. Yet the soul was sustained upon its inward way. Wonderful indeed is the conflict, the dimly-seen midnight wrestling of this man of prayer with his God. Much he had known already of Him whose larger blessing he so deeply craved. Did it seem in the darkness as if all were failing him? Strengthened and upheld by the Hand that seemed against him, he was yet to prove the faithfulness of Him to whom he clung with the heart-cry, “Show me now Thy Name." (Taylor, Dr. and Mrs.Howard. Hudson Taylor And the China Inland MissionThe Growth of a Work of God (1927) London: The Religious Tract Society)
Great Preachers of the Faith
Jonathan Edwards
Quotes Worth Quoting
"Here, ( Sodom ) Lot and his wife lived plentifully; and it was a place where the inhabitants wallowed in carnal pleasures and delights. But however much it abounded in these things, what were they worth now, when the city was burning? Lot 's wife was very foolish in lingering in her escape, for the sake of things which were all on fire- so the enjoyments, the profits, and pleasures of sin, have the wrath and curse of God on them: brimstone is scattered on them; hell-fire is ready to kindle on them. It is not therefore worthwhile for any person to look back after such things." Edwards, Jonathan. The Works of Jonathan Edward, volume 2, First published 1832, now 1974, The Folly of Looking Back in Fleeing Out of Sodom . Edinburgh:The Banner of Truth Trust (sernon 4 p. 65)
It is a convincing argument for the truth of Christian religion, and that it stands upon a most sure basis, that none have ever yet been able to prove it false, though there have been many men of all sorts, many fine wits and men of great learning, that have spent themselves and ransacked the world, for arguments against it, and this for many ages.
(Edwards, Jonathan, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Observations of the facts and evidence of Christianity and the
objections of infidels, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust), p 462
Christmas Evans
"He (man) is an enemy to His maker; a rebel against Jehovah; a blank-nay, worse--a blot in God's creation; dead to every virtue, dead to everything but sin;..... lost to every gracious purpose of his being; A withered branch, fit only to be plucked off, and cast into the fire; stubble, ready for the burning. "Let him alone!" said Reason. "Cut him down!" cried Justice. "I hate the workers of iniquity!" added Holiness. "He or I must perish!" exclaimed Truth.
"Spare him! Spare him! Spare him!" pleaded weeping Mercy. And Wisdom came forth, leading the Son of God, and said: "I have found a ransom!”Behold the Mediator!" And all the attributes met and embraced at the manger, and kissed each other at the cross"
Evans, Christmas. (c.1846) " Sermons of Christmas Evans" (Philadelphia: J.
Harmstead), p. 123.
Matthew Henry
There are many who, when they are lifted up, care not for hearing or speaking of their former depressions; but David takes all occasions to remember his own low estate. Matthew Henry -Com. Psalm 118
Our spiritual enemies would, long before this, have been our ruin if God had not been our helper, Matthew Henry - Comm. Psalm 118
"The Lord is my strength and my song; that is, I make him so (without him I am weak and sad, but on Him I stay myself as my strength, both for doing and suffering, and in him I solace myself as my song, by which I both express my joy and ease my grief), and, making him so, I find him so. He strengthens my heart with his graces and gladdens my heart with his comforts.’’ If God be our strength, he must be our song; if he work all our works in us, he must have all praise and glory from us.
Charles Spurgeon Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Charles Spurgeon
“O mourners, never let Satan prevail upon you to ‘forsake the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is.’ If you cannot get comfort, still go to the sanctuary. It is the most likely place for you to get it. One of the sweet traits of character in mourners is that they do love to go to the assemblies of God’s people” (Charles Spurgeon).
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
Charles Spurgeon
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
How iI rejoice to think that, although my faith-sight of the blood gives me peace, still if that eye of mine ever gets dim, it does not imperil my
salvation, for God's eye is not dim, and it is always fixed on the blood
of the Son. In sacred contemplation, the Father surveys the sacrifice of His Son with supreme satisfaction and as He sees the blood, He spares us for His Son's sake.
Spurgeon's expository encylopeida,Volume 2 Grand Rapids: Baker Book House: p. 218
Charles Spurgeon.
Great Hymns, Songs and Poems of the Faith
Reginald Heber
"For all the Saints"
"O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
All are one in Thee, for all are Thine.
Alleluia, Alleluia!"
G.A. Young, 19th century, Great Hymns of the Faith, p. 298, or in the
Celebration hymnal, p.696
D.L. Moody
"If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend on it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.” - D.L. Moody
Oswald Sanders Leadership
"Oh, for more teachers among us; leaders who know how to read hearts and apply truth to the the needs of the people, as a good physician reads his patients and applies remedies to their ills. There are soul-sicknesses open and obscure, acute and chronic, superficial and deep-seated which the truth as it is in Jesus will heal. But it is not the same truth for each need, any more than the same medicine for every disease. That is why we should most diligently study the Bible and pray for the constant and powerful illumination of the Spirit." {Samuel Logan Brengle by C.W. Hall, p. 274; quoted in Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders. (1967). Chicago": Moody Press. p. 32}