“If we could get out of our heads the idea that the future is something God simply knows and get into our heads the idea that the future is a place where God already is, that He doesn’t just know about the past and see the present and know about the future, but that He stands outside of time and reigns over all of it sovereignly, what would we have to be anxious about?”
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
“You will find, if you seriously study Scripture, that outside of the idea of hell, there is no more terrifying idea in the Bible than God setting you free to run in the imagination of your heart.”
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
“You do not need another special revelation from God outside the Bible. You can listen to the voice of God every day. Christ still speaks, because the Spirit has already spoken. If you want to hear from God, go to the book that records only what he has said. Immerse yourself in the word of God. You will not find anything more sure.”
― Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
― Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
“When history as the world knows it no longer exists, and there are no longer any great kings or great wars or great political machinations; when there are no histories of countries left to cherish, no more dollars; when it’s no longer the strong versus the weak, and all that’s left is the story of the great God and King, and all has been righted, and the heroes are now the missionaries and the ministers of grace—of which every believer can be—and our eyes behold Him as He truly is … words fail. That is where our heart ought to be.”
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
― To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
“And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
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