“Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in “muchness” and “manyness,” he will rest satisfied.”
Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Quotes
What you present as the gospel, will determine what you present as discipleship. Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
Dallas Willard
God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.
John Piper
The tragedy is that if someone were to hear our thoughts and words in the midst of our dangers and troubles they would never guess that we had a living God.
Dale Davis
Idolatry is the folly of asking a gift to be a giver.
Dane Ortlund
People are persuaded to spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last, on people we don't care about.
Tim Jackson
We don’t drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
Andy Stanley
The study of theology often produces overgrown youths whose internal organs have not correspondingly developed. This is a characteristic of adolescence. There is actually something like theological puberty.
Helmut Thielicke
When faced with evil, we don't cross-examine God, we examine God on the cross.
Andrew Wilson
The opposite of faith isn’t doubt; it’s certainty and control.
John Mark Comer