“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”
― Am I Called?: The Summons To Pastoral Ministry
― Am I Called?: The Summons To Pastoral Ministry
“Bitterness differs from unbelief merely in the intensity and depth—in the degree—of its rebellion. As my friend Andy Farmer has pointed out, the two are distinguished simply by the difference between can’t and won’t. Unbelief says, “I can’t do this,” while bitterness says, “I won’t do this.” Unbelief tells a spouse, “You can’t change,” and bitterness declares, “You won’t change.” Unbelief claims, “God can’t affect what I like and dislike”; while bitterness says, “God won’t affect them.”
― When Sinners Say "I Do": Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
― When Sinners Say "I Do": Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
“Maybe you are beginning to sense that if your experience of sin is not all that bitter, and your experience of marriage not all that sweet, maybe your theology is not all that it should be.”
― When Sinners Say "I Do": Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
― When Sinners Say "I Do": Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
“So we’re tempted to despair—the despair of the not-as-great-as-we-want-to-be. Charles Spurgeon’s epitaph on Alexander could easily describe one way we can go: See Alexander’s tears! He weeps! Yes, he weeps for another world to conquer! Ambition is insatiable! The gain of the whole world is not enough. Surely to become a universal monarch, is to make one’s self universally miserable.13”
― Rescuing Ambition
― Rescuing Ambition
“Mercy sweetens marriage. Where it is absent, two people flog one another over everything from failure to fix the faucet to phone bills. But where it is present, marriage grows sweeter and more delightful, even in the face of challenges, setbacks, and the persistent effects of our remaining sin.”
― When Sinners Say "I Do": Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
― When Sinners Say "I Do": Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
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