Thoughts for Saturday, December 2, 2017

"...to accept Christ’s righteousness alone, His blood alone for salvation, that is the sum of
the gospel." - Thomas Wilcox (1621-1687), From his sermon Honey Out of the Rock

Recommended sermon:

Religion Without Regeneration: John Wesley's Personal Testimony, by Dr. Ian Brown

Misc. Quotes for Saturday, May 28, 2016

"Dysfunctional families are known for a certain type of boundary problem called triangulation. It goes something like this: Person A is angry at Person B. Person A does not tell Person B. Person A calls Person C and gripes about Person B. Person C enjoys Person A's confidence and listens whenever A wants to play the triangle game. By this time, Person B, feeling lonely, calls C, and in passing, mentions the conflict with A. Person C becomes the confidant of B as well as A. Persons A and B have not resolved their conflict and C has two "friends." - Boundaries, by Dr. John Townsend and Dr. Henry Clouad

"We are presently working discretely with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world." - Arnold Toynbee, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1031 (as quoted in the United Nations Exposed)

"Satan may bring forward and corrupt Scripture, but he cannot answer Scripture. It is Christ’s word of mighty authority. Christ foiled Satan with it (Matt 4:7). In all the Scripture there is not an ill word against a poor sinner stripped of self-righteousness"- Thomas Wilcox (1627-1687) , from his sermon Honey Out of the Rock

 

"Look more at justification than sanctification." - Thomas Wilcox (1627-1687) , from his sermon Honey Out of the Rock

 

"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff (as quoted in Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein) 

Misc. Quotes for Friday, May 27, 2016

"...to accept Christ’s righteousness alone, His blood alone for salvation, that is the sum of
the gospel." - Thomas Wilcox (1621-1687), From his sermon Honey Out of the Rock

"I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution." - Dr. Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984)

“We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.” - Watchman Nee (1903-1972), From his book The Normal Christian Life

and last but not least, 

 Misc. Quotes about the United Nations

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
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Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
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Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1462701

Misc. Quotes for Thursday, May 26, 2016

"Believing is the most wonderful thing in the world. Put any thing of your own to it, and you spoil it. Christ will not so much as look at it for believing. When you believe and come to Christ, you must leave behind you your own righteousness, and bring nothing but your sin: (Oh, that is hard!) leave behind all your holiness, sanctification, duties, humblings, and so on; and bring nothing but your needs and miseries, or else Christ is not fit for you, nor you for Christ. Christ will be a pure Redeemer and Mediator, and you must be an undone sinner, or Christ and you will never agree. It is the hardest thing in the world to take Christ alone for righteousness." - From the sermon,  Honey Out of the Rock, by Thomas Wilcox (1621-1687)

“Christian patriots spend more time washing feet than waving flags.” - Chuck Colson (1931-2012)

"God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom." - Chuck Colson (1931-2012)

"Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." ----George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992 (Source)

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."- Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Justice (Source)

"There are two views of history: (1) History happens by accident or (2) It is planned. The general public is taught that history happens by accident. However, the upper echelons... know that history is planned." ----R.E. McMaster, Jr.---Educator (Source)

"...a strong boundary is like a door with the doorknob on the inside. A weak boundary is like a door with the doorknob on the outside. A child's ego is like a house without doors." -  by John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame That Binds You,

 
 
 

Misc. Quotes for Wednesday, May 18, 2016

"Believing is the most wonderful thing in the world. Put anything of your own to it, and you spoil it. Christ will not esteem it believing. When you believe and come to Christ you must leave behind your own righteousness (oh, that is hard!), all your holiness, santifications, duties, tears, humblings, etc., and bring nothing but your sins, your wants and miseries, else Christ is not fit for you, nor you for Christ."
-Thomas Wilcox? (1549 - 1608)

"Whereas the chief aim of the old (gospel) was to teach people to worship God, the concern of the new (gospel) seams limited to making them feel better." - Dr. J. I. Packer (A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J.I. Packer)

"It seams to many of us, that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new world order. Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the devil. Well, join me. I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan." - Walter Cronkite (Source)

"You need not hope in order to undertake, and you need not succeed in order to persevere." (source: Oliver Cromwell?)

Puritan Quote of the Day - Thomas Wilcox

"To accept Christ's righteousness, his blood alone, for salvation, is the sum of the gospel." - Thomas Wilcox (1621 - 1687)


Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer