Michael Turley > Michael's Quotes

“When the Creator gives His creature the power of thirst, it is because water exists to meet its thirst. When He creates hunger, there is food to correspond to the appetite. Even so, when He inclines men to pray, it is because prayer has a corresponding blessing connected with it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“If the glory of God is reflected in all of creation, if the effects of sin reach to all of creation, and if the goal of redemption is to restore all of creation, then what should you and I care about? EVERYTHING! Your sadness with sin should be bigger than the fact that it complicates your life. Your sadness should extend as far as sin reaches. Your celebration of God’s restoring grace should be bigger than the fact that it brings blessing to your private world. No, your celebration should reach as far as restoration is needed. God’s grace really does welcome you to think big and live large. God invites you to be an active and daily part of the “more” of redemption. His restoring grace gives you reason to extend the boundaries of your concern way beyond the borders of your own life. He calls you out of your little kingdom to give your talents, gifts, resources, and time to the glorious concerns of his big sky kingdom.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“Sin shrinks each of us to a mini-king, ruling our mini-kingdoms of one. It reduces the human community to a society of kings colliding with each other’s solitary kingdoms.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“What does it mean to live in an intentionally Christ-centered way in your daily life—in your marriage, parenting, friendship, work, community, finances, etc.? Remember that only when you live for Christ can you recapture the transcendence for which you were created. Only in transcendent living can you recover your true humanity. And only in recovering your true humanity can your life really have meaning and purpose. All of this is true because your humanity is not tied to self-discovery and self-fulfillment (as the surrounding world proposes) but in investing your life for Christ’s glory and the success of his kingdom on earth.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“It is his honor and glory that I live for. I no longer live, decide, act, and relate for the purposes of my own glory.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“The little kingdom promises life, but brings you death; the big kingdom requires your death, but gives you life.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“His death call is really an offer to a life beyond your wildest dreams—a life of joy, satisfaction, purpose, and pleasure that this sadly broken world could never deliver in its finest moment. Shrinking your life to the size of your life is not life. It is death wearing the mask of life.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. The”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“And here are we, splitting hairs about all sorts of mysterious problems which do not concern us—we shall not be blamed, at our judgement, for having failed to solve them. Strange creatures that we are, we forget the questions which really matter to us, matter vitally, and concentrate, of set purpose, on what is mere curiosity and waste of time. So clear-sighted we are, and so blind!”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Ultimate Early Church Collection: including The Imitation of Christ, On the Incarnation, Augustine's Confessions, Apologies, Dialogues, Letters & any ... Spurgeon, Tozer & Puritan Classics)

“Let them shun the immodest music and dancing that are currently so fashionable. I am aware that many people think me ridiculous for giving such advice; but if you listen to me, you will understand the advantages of a sober life-style more and more as time goes on. You will no longer laugh at me, but will laugh instead at the way people live now like silly children or drunken men. What is our duty, then? Remove from your lives shameful, immodest, and Satanic music, and don't associate with people who enjoy such profligate entertainment.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Ultimate Early Church Collection: including The Imitation of Christ, On the Incarnation, Augustine's Confessions, Apologies, Dialogues, Letters & any ... Spurgeon, Tozer & Puritan Classics)