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Quotes on Christmas
It is here, in the thing that happened after the first Christmas, that the profoundest and most unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. 'The Word became flesh' (Jn. 1:14); God became man; the divine Son became a Jew; the Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, unable to do more than lie and stare and wriggle and make noises, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. ... The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets.Knowing God
the association of a Christian festival as important as that of the Nativity with paganism would have been completely antithetical to the mindset of believers at the time. Countless sermons and books by preachers and leaders of the young Church stressed the need to avoid any association with the world of idols and state cults. Their desire to abstain from attendance at the games and the sacrifices that were so much a part of Roman life was noted by their fellow citizens and gained the new religion an unsavory reputation for atheism.Christmas in the Crosshairs, 7
Jesus miraculous birth does in fact point to his deity and also to the reality of the creative power that operates in our new birth (John 1:13).Concise Theology, Section 41
the true celebration of the feast of Christmas, is, to meditate (and as it were to ruminate in the secret cogitations of our minds) upon the incarnation and birth of Jesus Christ, God and man: not only at that time, but all the times and days of our life, and to show ourselves thankful to his blessed majesty for the same
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Quotes on Christ
I saw the other day in an Italian grotto a little fern, which grew where its leaves continually glistened and danced in the spray of a fountain. It was always green, and neither summer's drought nor winter's cold affected it. So let us for ever abide under the sweet influence of Jesus' love.
Lectures to my Students
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
When Jesus speaks of God as Father, he is implying that he is divine, an implication that is not lost on those around him. The God Who Is Triune: Revisioning the Christian Doctrine of God (Kindle Locations 261-262). Kindle Edition.
Only if Christ is God, in the full sense of the word and without qualification, has God entered humanity, and only then have fellowship with God, the forgiveness of sins, the truth of God, and immortality been certainly brought to man.Hist. of Doct. I, p211
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Quotes on Providence
Let us be content that God should rule the world; learn to acquiesce in his will, and submit to his providence. Does any affliction befall you? Remember God sees it is that which is fit for you, or it would not come. Your clothes cannot be so fit for you as your crosses. God's providence may sometimes be secret—but it is always wise; and though we may not be silent under God's dishonor—yet we should learn to be silent under his displeasure.A Body of Divinity p. 125 Banner of Truth
Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.
the Lord usually adapts means to ends, from which the plain lesson is, that we shall be likely to accomplish most when we are in the best spiritual condition; or in other words, we shall usually do our Lord's work best when our gifts and graces are in good order, and we shall do worst when they are most out of trim.
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A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.
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Quotes on Unbelief
Years are slipping away and time is flying. Graveyards are filling up and families are thinning. Death and judgement are getting nearer to us all. And yet you live like one asleep about your soul! What madness! What folly! What suicide can be worse than this? Awake before it is too late; awake, and arise from the dead, and live to God. Turn to Him who is sitting at the right hand of God, to be your Saviour and Friend. Turn to Christ, and cry mightily to Him about your soul. Holiness (Chapter 6)
Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.
atheism results from the perverted moral state of man and from his desire to escape from God. It is deliberately blind to and suppresses the most fundamental instinct of man, the deepest needs of the soul, the highest aspirations of the human spirit, and the longings of a heart that gropes after some higher Being. This practical or intellectual suppression of the operation of the semen religionis often involves prolonged and painful struggles.Systematic Theology, 22
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Our election passively is God's actively. God's eternal purpose [is] to reconcile us. But how should this be made sure unto our hearts without their believing and considering that God has eternal purposes about that matter?
If you would know whether your names are written in heaven, satisfy yourselves in this: that the call of God hath took effectual hold of your hearts. Hath it brought your souls off from every thing below Christ wholly to follow Christ? It is said when Christ called Peter and Andrew, they presently "left their nets, and followed him" (Matt. 4:18–20). Every man hath his nets, somewhat that his soul is entangled in, till the call of God take hold of him. Can you now, with Peter, when God calls, lay aside your nets to follow Him?
This calling is by the grace of God. As He graciously appeared to the patriarchs, offered better things to them, and moved upon them by His Spirit, so He allures them that they can say: "Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." It is grace that draws you to Him and draws you after Him. He constrains His people by a holy violence; being merciful to them, He catcheth hold of them, as He did of lingering Lot. Such is our infirmity, and such a hold the world hath of us, that "the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled" (Luke 14:23).
Effectual calling is the first gathering of men unto Christ, the first making of men to come to Christ, the first putting of a man into the estate of grace. It is the very portal to religion, the very entry into eternal life; it is the first bringing of a man to partake of the Lord Jesus Christ and to have fellowship with Him.
There is no sin which does more deface God's image than drunkenness; it disguises a person and does even unman him. Drunkenness makes him have the throat of a fish, the belly of a swine, and the head of an ass. Drunkenness is the shame of nature, the extinguisher of reason, the shipwreck of chastity, and the murder of conscience. Drunkenness is hurtful for the body; the cup kills more than the cannon.
Our aim should be God's glory, but many drink to this end: that they may the easier forget God, forget Him in His threats which stick in their souls after sermon; forget Him in His judgments, which have taken hold of some of their companions. They drink to the end they may drown conscience and put off all thoughts of death and judgment; to the end they may harten [i.e., encourage] and harden themselves against all the messages of God and make themselves both to know and move at God's own words, as in this prophesy we find afterward. How many a man's heart can tell him that this hath been one of his special errands to the cup?
What one sin more mangles and defaces God's image and man's beauty than this? How doth it dam up the head and spirits with mud? Blow the cheeks with wind? Fill the eyes and nose with fire? Lade the hands and legs with water? Plague, in short, the whole man with the diseases of a horse, the belly of a cow, the head of an ass…and turn him into a very walking dunghill?
I had rather be a sober heathen than a drunken Christian, a chaste heathen than an unclean believer.
Take heed and beware of the detestable sin of drunkenness, which is a beastly sin, a voluntary madness, a sin that unmans thee and makes thee like the beasts that perish; yea, sets thee below the brute beasts, which will not drink to excess.
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the spoiler of civility, the destruction of reason, the brewer's agent, the alehouse benefactor, his wife's sorrow, his children's trouble, his own shame, his neighbors' scoff, a walking swill bowl, the picture of a beast, and a monster of a man.
While the wine is in thy hand, thou art a man; when it is in thy head, thou art become a beast. The drunkard cries to his fellow, "Do me reason," but the drink answers, "I will leave thee no reason; scarce so much as a beast, for they will drink no more than they need." Diogenes being urged to drink immoderately cast the drink on the ground. Being reproved for that loss, he answered, "If I had drunk it, I had lost both the drink and myself."
When the question was asked, How many angels might stand upon a needle's point at once? The answer was that it was but a needless point to stand upon. Let not us stand upon such needless points of curiosity, to the breach of Christian charity.
Beware of curiosity. He is half gone into error that vainly covets novelties and listens after every newfangled opinion.
Many discourse and dispute more for faction than satisfaction and hence come so many fractions. Mysteries and Revelations
Discontent keeps a man from enjoying what he doth possess. A drop or two of vinegar will sour a whole glass of wine. Comfort depends upon contentment. It is not trouble that troubles, but discontent. It is not the water without the ship but the water that gets within the leak which sinks it. It is not outward afflictions that can make the life of a Christian sad; a contented mind would sail above these waters. But when there is a leak of discontent open and trouble gets into the heart, then it is disquieted and sinks.
Take heed of discontent. It was the devil's sin that threw him out of heaven. Ever since which, this restless spirit loves to fish in troubled waters.
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