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

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