…Hardly a century after the once glittering tinsel of rationalism, now that materialism is sounding its retreat in the ranks of science, a kind of hollow piety is again exercising its enticing charms and every day it is becoming more fashionable to take the plunge into the warm stream of mysticism.
Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism (1898)
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God is There
…We must never forget that the first part of the gospel is not “Accept Christ as Savior,” but, “God is there.” – Francis Schaeffer
A Minister & His Bible
…A minister with his Bible is like David with his sling and stone, fully equipped for the fray. – C.S. Spurgeon, Lecture to My Students
Cheer Up, Pastor
…I commend cheerfulness to all who would win souls; not levity and frothiness, but a genial happy spirit. There are more flies caught with honey than with vinegar – C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
God’s Prisoner
…Paul was Nero’s prisoner, but Nero much more God’s. – William Gurnall, the Christian in Complete Armor
Pastors, Stop Dominating Conversations
…A man has no more right at table to talk all than to eat all. – C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students