David Wells’s twenty-year-old assessment is still widely true: “The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, his grace is too ordinary, his
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“Alexander operated by the same principle. Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.”
― The Warrior Ethos
― The Warrior Ethos
“The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. —Plutarch Sayings of the Spartans”
― The Warrior Ethos
― The Warrior Ethos
“Just think of the Christians around you. I do not speak of nominal Christians, or of professing Christians, but I speak of hundreds and thousands of honest, earnest Christians who are not living a life in the power of God or to His glory. So little power, so little devotion or consecration to God, so little perception of the truth that a Christian is a man utterly surrendered to God’s will! Oh,”
― The Andrew Murray Collection: 21 Classic Works
― The Andrew Murray Collection: 21 Classic Works
“While Pedo-baptists send inquirers to their pamphlets and doctors, the Baptists send them to the Bible, and they cannot but exult that their sentiments are there so plainly expressed. And what emboldens them, and disgusts their opponents is, that every man, woman, and child has the leading passages by heart, on which their sentiments are founded, and can, at once, produce arguments, which the greatest doctors cannot answer without much time, nor then without much sophistry.”
― A General History Of The Baptist Denomination In America, And Other Parts Of The World
― A General History Of The Baptist Denomination In America, And Other Parts Of The World
“Be brave, my heart [wrote the poet and mercenary Archilochus]. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. The ancients resisted innovation in warfare because they feared it would rob the struggle of honor. King Agis was shown a new catapult, which could shoot a killing dart 200 yards. When he saw this, he wept. “Alas,” he said. “Valor is no more.”
― The Warrior Ethos
― The Warrior Ethos
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