Justin Genus’s Reviews > Active Spirituality: Grace and Effort in the Christian Life > Status Update

"The deeper level from within ourselves from which our prayer, or any other act, wells up, the more it is His, but not at all the less ours. Rather, most ours when most His."
--CS Lewis

"God produces all and we act all."
--Jonathan Edwards

"The Holy Spirit so worketh in us as that He worketh by us, and what He doth in us is done by us."
--John Owen

"This is Christ, who continually, with the oil of his grace, maintains the work already begun in the heart; by the means of which, notwithstanding what the devil can do, the souls of his people prove gracious still."
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"The most fatal thing is to stop walking."

“He heard the roar, but they did him no harm.”

I gotta read Calvin on the Supper here soon

Piper quote from future grace on the difficulty of rest is money.

Good framework for discipling.

The inevitable faith-feelings chapter. Strong on the ways feelings (esp positive ones) become the object of our faith. Thoughtful practical commentary on Jeremiah 17

Good as it gets for a short treatment of assurance. Especially the description of the witness of the Holy Spirit.

“He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.”—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The pastoral sensitivity in this letter was exemplary.