Bible Resource Archive

quotes for future teaching opportunities

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"The sadness of this scene penetrates far deeper than formal religion and spirituality. It is about a crushing loss of transcendence, meaning, and purpose! To hide from the his Creator is to hide from his true identity... In a moment of conscious rebellion, he has treated his life as being no bigger than his life... He has forsaken the transcendent glory for which he was created and chosen a replacement glory: to take for himself the glory that only God was to have. He has compressed the borders of his life to his own wants, needs, and desires... This self-centered world lacks the oxygen of a relationship with God. It is not a place of life. Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More

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"You have been chosen to transcend - to transcend the boundaries of your own hopes and dreams, to transcend the boundaries of your own plans and purposes, and to transcend the borders of your own family and friends. You have been chosen to transcend the further reach of your own definition of glory to be part of a greater glory, the glory of God and his work of making all things new." Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More

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"A gruesome death like the one that Christ endured for me would only be required for one who is exceedingly sinful and unable to appease a holy God. Consequently, whenever I consider the necessity and manner of His death, along with the love and selflessness behind it, I am laid bare and utterly exposed for the sinner I am. Such an awareness to my sinfulness does not drag me down, but actually serves to lift me up by magnifying my appreciation of God's forgiving grace in my life." Milton Vincent, The Gospel Primer for Christians

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Purity is not the goal. Jesus is the goal. Purity is just the result of being so in love with Him that you don't want anything to get in the way of that intimacy. Dont just try to 'not sin'. Run toward the mission God has for you. Run so hard that the 'seductive speech' of the world becomes background noise you can't even hear anymore. Ben Stuart

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In the absence of a 'Why' we will always give in to the 'What'. If you don't know why you are in a relationship-if you don't have a clear purpose for your life and a clear vision for what a gooly partnership is meant to accomplish-you will eventualy do whatever feels good in the moment. Without a 'Why' that is bigger than your current cravings, you will find yourself making compromises you never thought you'd make, with people you never thought you would be with because the 'What' of physical or emotional intimacy is the only thing available to fill the void. Purpose is the only thing strong enough to compete with Passion." Ben Stuart

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"After all, how can we bear others' burdens if we barely know them? Would we confess our sins to someone we don't trust? This kind of depth will require more than two hours a week on Sunday morning. It will call for us to carve out significant time from our schedule." Conrad Hilario, Searching for Wisdom

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"When we ask the sluggard 'How long...?' 'When...?' we are being too definite for him. He doesn't know. All he knows is his delicious drowsiness; all he asks is a little respite: 'a little...a little...a little...' He does not commit himself to a refusal but deceives himself by the smallness of his surrenders. So, be inches and minutes, his opportunity slips away." Derek Kidner

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"Laziness could run a competitive race for the most underrated sin...Quietly it anesthetizes its victim into a lifeless stupor that ends in hunger, bondage, and death." Ronald Sailer

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“By sloth, I do not mean laziness. Sloth is militant indifference, apathy, and thoughtlessness. Sloth is willful joynessless in the face of God’s presence, purpose, and intentions… We betray our humanity when we are willfully blind, when we refuse to reflect, when we fail to ask questions, when we never ponder. Sloth is deadly inasmuch as it directly attacks and undermines human thoughtfulness and reflection.” The Noonday Demon, John Blackwell

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“It is unlikely that we will deepen our relationship with God in a casual or haphazard manner. There will be a need for some intentional commitment and some reorganization in our own lives.” William Paulsell quoted in The Life You've Always Wanted, John Ortberg, pg.200

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“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old and our Father is younger than we.” Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterson

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“Moses said “I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.” Everything turned on Moses’ being willing to “turn aside” - to interrupt his daily routing to pay attention to the presence of God. He didn’t have to. He could have looked the other way, as many of us would. He would have just missed the Exodus, the people of Israel, his calling… He would have missed knowing God.” The Life You've Always Wanted, John Ortberg, pg. 18

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“The fawning etiquette of unctuous prayer is utterly foreign in the Bible. Biblical prayer is impertinent, persistent, shameless, indecorous. It is more like haggling in an oriental bazaar than the polite monologues of the churches.” Walter Wink quoted in The Life You’ve Always Wanted, John Ortberg, pg. 95

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"The gospel reminds me first that what I actually deserve from God is a full cup churning with the torments of His wrath. This is the cup that would be mine to drink if I were given what I deserve each day. With this understanding in mind, I see that to be handed a completely empty cup rom God would be cause enough for infinite gratitude... That God, in fact, has given me a cup that is full of "every spiritual blessing in Christ," and this without the slightest admixture of wrath, leaves me truly dumbfounded with inexpressible joy." Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of God's Love

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"In numerous studies of girls and women ranging from junior high through adulthood, high levels of social media use are correlated with: - Greater internalization of the thin beauty ideal - More self-objectification - More frequent social comparisons - Higher levels of disordered eating - More desire to have plastic surgery - Greater investment in appearance - Increased depressive symptoms" Renee Engeln, PDH, Beauty Sick:How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women, 2017.

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"The bad news...is that the light exposes our guilt and shame. The good news is that the fear of the Lord exposes us without leaving us shamed, forever guilty, and powerless to change. Rather, it exposes us in order to cover out shame, cleanse the guilty conscience, give grace to change, and restore fellowship with God and others." Edward T. Welch, Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave

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"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." C.S. Lewis The Weight of Glory