Derek Cooper > Quotes

“Faith is lean and ready to starve unless it is fed with continual meditation on God’s promises.”
― Derek Cooper, Thomas Manton: A Guided Tour of the Life and Thought of a Puritan Pastor

“You would think it strange of two people who conversed every day for forty or fifty years, but all this while did not know one another; yet this is the case between us and our souls; we live a long time in this world but are strangers to ourselves.”
― Derek Cooper, Thomas Manton: A Guided Tour of the Life and Thought of a Puritan Pastor

“Christianity is a school of people who deny themselves and their own conveniences for Christ’s sake.”
― Derek Cooper, Thomas Manton: A Guided Tour of the Life and Thought of a Puritan Pastor

“Yet Africa's religious significance goes deeper still. The continent of Africa was not only the home of the Hebrews for hundreds of years before the exodus, but Africa served as a refuge for the infant Jesus during Herod's final, furious moments of kingship. And during the last hours of Jesus' life, a man from Africa, Simon of Cyrene, came to his rescue, bearing the Savior's cross when he could not bear it alone. Though Israel and Palestine were the geographic backdrops to Jesus' ministry, Africa was Jesus' safe place. During Jesus' most vulnerable moments on earth, while a helpless infant and an abandoned Messiah, Mother Africa came to the rescue.”
― Derek Cooper, Introduction to World Christian History

“The church was planted in Asia, nurtured in Africa and harvested worldwide.”
― Derek Cooper, Introduction to World Christian History