“True faith is never unreasonable, because its object is always trustworthy.” -John Stott, Understanding the Bible
Tag Archives: faith
Your God-Given Spam Folder
“Scientists estimate that for every hundred pieces of information that enter our brains, ninety-nine end up in the spam folder.1 Noticing only one thing out of every hundred is a good thing. As many suffering autistic people will tell you, if you don’t have a good mental spam filter, you can be overwhelmed with useless and harmful data.” -David Murray, The Happy Christian
You Have To Do It Awhile, First
“There are a great many things [in Christianity] that cannot be understood until after you have gone a certain distance along the Christian road.” -C.S. Lewis
Calm, Better Than Any Drug Could Give
“Stronger than any chemical tranquilizer is trust in our all-knowing God.” -John Stott
The Focus of Counseling
“If my counseling does not help others rely upon Another (upon whom I also rely), I will inevitably teach them to rely on themselves— or on me, or other friends, or medications, or techniques, or pablum “truths” (that are in fact empty or even fictional).” -David Powlison
Calvin: Sometimes It’s Better to Limp Than to Sprint
“For we should so reason that the splendor of the divine countenance, which even the apostle calls ‘unapproachable’, is for us like an inexplicable labyrinth unless we are conducted into it by the thread of the Word; so that it is better to limp along this path than to dash with all speed outside it.” -John Calvin
Desiring Christ
“That is a dead faith which has no sense of taste. But true faith finds much delectation in heavenly things. The Word is sweeter than the honeycomb (Psa. 19:10). Christ’s love is better than wine (Song of Solomon 1:2).” -Thomas Watson
