Quotes That Rock

“The fol­low­ers of Jesus are to be different-different from both the nom­i­nal church and the sec­u­lar world, dif­fer­ent from both the reli­gious and the irre­li­gious. The Ser­mon on the Mount is the most com­plete delin­eation any­where in the New Tes­ta­ment of the Chris­t­ian value-system, eth­i­cal stan­dard, reli­gious devo­tion, atti­tude to money, ambi­tion, life-style and net­work of relationships-all of which are totally at vari­ance with those of the non-Christian world. And this Chris­t­ian Coun­ter­cul­ture is the life of the king­dom of God, a fully human life indeed but lived out under the divine rule.“
John Stott, The Mes­sage of the Ser­mon on the Mount

“There­fore, in a post-Christian world and in an often post-Christian church it is imper­a­tive to point out with love where apos­tasy lies. We must openly dis­cuss with all who will lis­ten, treat­ing all men as fel­low men, but we must call apos­tasy, apos­tasy. If we do not do that, we are not ready for ref­or­ma­tion, revival, and a rev­o­lu­tion­ary church in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are all too eas­ily infil­i­trated with rel­a­tivism and syn­the­sis in our own day. We tend to lack antithe­sis.“
Fran­cis Scha­ef­fer, Death in the City

“In effi­ca­cious grace we are not merely pas­sive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God pro­duces all, we act all. For that is what pro­duces, viz. our own acts. God is the only proper author and foun­tain; we only are the proper actors. We are in dif­fer­ent respects, wholly pas­sive and wholly active.“
Jonathan Edwards, Free­dom of the Will

“But what if the fore­knowl­edge of God, and the lib­erty of the will can­not be rec­on­cilled by man? Shall we there­fore deny a per­fec­tion in God to sup­port a lib­erty in our­selves? Shall we rather fas­ten igno­rance upon God, and accuse Him of blind­ness to main­tain our lib­erty?“
Stephen Charnock, Dis­courses Upon the Exis­tence and Attrib­utes of God

“But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been cru­ci­fied to me, and I to the world.“
The Apos­tle Paul, The Book of Galatians