Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its
intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonSin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonA prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent
Dietrich BonhoefferCheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.
Jack MillerThe Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
Timothy J. KellerTag: art optimism idealism realism depravity
Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.
Timothy J. KellerTag: culture depravity common-grace
Work done by non-Christians always contain some degree of God's common grace as well as the distortions of sin. Work done by Christians, even if it overtly names the name of Jesus is also to a significant degree distorted by sin.
Timothy J. KellerTag: work depravity common-grace
Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
Blaise PascalIn our natural state we dislike dealing with God alone. Through our natural alienation from God we shrink from Him, and from eternal realities. This cleaves to us more or less, even after our regeneration. Hence it is, that more or less, even as believers, we have the same shrinking from standing with God alone,--from depending upon Him alone,--from looking to Him alone:--and yet this is the very position in which we ought to be, if we wish our faith to be strengthened. The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance.
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