 It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded by others as one of the called and elect of God. It is just in proportion as we add to our faith the other Christian graces that we have solid ground on which to rest in the assurance we belong to the family of Christ. It is not those who are governed by self-will, but "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14). Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Conversion |
| God built into the creation a variety of cultural spheres, such as the family, economics, politics, art, and intellectual inquiry. Each of these spheres has its own proper "business" and needs its own unique pattern of authority. When we confuse spheres, by violating the proper boundaries of church and state, for instance, or reducing the academic life to a business enterprise, we trangress the patterns that God has set. Author: Abraham Kuyper
Topics: Creation, Authority |
| The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Transformation |
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
- Christopher Love Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Prayer |
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
- Patrick Henry Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Christianity |
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
- Patrick Henry Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Christianity |
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| After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Drunkenness, Family, Business |
| The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Unity |
| No man hath a right to claim God as his Father, unless he feeleth in his soul, and believeth, solemnly, through the faith of God's election, that he has been adopted into the one family of which is in heaven and earth, and that he has been regenerated or born again. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Conviction, Conversion |
| Remember that if you are a child of God, you will never be happy in sin. You are spoiled for the world, the flesh, and the devil. When you were regenerated there was put into you a vital principle, which can never be content to dwell in the dead world. You will have to come back, if indeed you belong to the family. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Backsliding |
| Manners - the habits of the people - are bred in family and church. Therefore, it isn't an issue of laws but of habits and manners. Author: Chuck Colson
Topics: Habits |
| A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. Author: Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Family |
| A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Christians, Family |
| I believe the family was established long before the church, and my duty is to my family first. I am not to neglect my family. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Family |
| God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite. Author: F.F. Bruce
Source: Hard Sayings of Jesus
Topics: Blessings |
| I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country. Author: Francois Fenelon
Topics: Family, Love |
| When we first arrived and saw the overwhelming destruction, many people asked where you even begin to respond? It starts with helping just one person, one family at a time, and doing what we can to give people relief and a sense of hope. Author: Franklin Graham
Topics: Charity |
| The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Family, Freedom |
| If I have but enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself and them; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others. Author: George Herbert
Topics: Stewardship |
| We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues. Author: Hannah More
Topics: Character, Business, Circumstances |
| The family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity. Author: Henry Drummond
Topics: Family, Christianity |
| If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven. Author: Hosea Ballou
Topics: Children, Gratitude, Parents |
| Let us, then, have it fixed down in our minds that the sinfulness of man does not begin from without, but from within. It is not the result of bad training in early years. It is not picked up from bad companions and bad examples, as some weak Christians are too fond of saying. No! It is a family disease, which we all inherit from our first parents, Adam and Eve, and with which we are born. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Sin |
| Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Weakness |
| Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Apathy |
| My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund - namely, all we have - for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting? Author: John Piper
Topics: Giving |
| A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. Author: John Selden
Topics: Government |
| Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual. Author: Jonathan Edwards
Topics: Family |
| Christian families are under attack in America! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family. Parents beware, the government wants your child! Author: Lester Roloff
Topics: Family, America |
| Why God should choose the meanest, basest, most unworthy individuals with absolutely nothing to commend them at all to God, except their miserable, lost condition, and then exalt them to become the sons of God, members of the divine family, and use them for His glory, is beyond all reason and human understanding. Yet that is grace. Author: M.R. DeHaan
Topics: Salvation |
| The revived begin to get a concern for the members of their own family - husband, wife, father, mother, children, brother, sister - who do not know that they are outside. They tell them about it; they feel they must. There is a constraint that is driving them. They talk about it to people, to friends and to everybody, and they begin to pray for them. Prayer is always a great feature of every revival, great prayer meetings, intercession hour after hour. They pray for these people by name and they plead, and they will not let God go, as it were. Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Topics: Witnessing |
| If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship the most valuable of our family-comforts... A church in the house will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you. Author: Matthew Henry
Source: The Complete Works of Matthew Henry, Baker, 1979, p. 260-261.
Topics: Home |
| There are many unacceptable reasons for war. Imperialism. Financial gain. Religion. Family feuds. Racial arrogance. There are many unacceptable motives for war. But there is one time when war is condoned and used by God: wickedness. Author: Max Lucado
Topics: War |
| You can operate your business without Christ. You can make it run well. You can raise your family without Christ. You can even pastor a church without Christ. But if you do, you will find that there will be no fruit, no Christlikeness, no manifestation of that beautiful character which arrests the attention of others. Instead there will be a sham, a phony imitation of the real thing, which will drive people away from Christ and will produce nothing but a dull, mechanical religiosity. Author: Ray C. Stedman
Topics: Hypocrisy, Rebellion |
| If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion. Author: Richard Baxter
Topics: Family |
| Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly. Author: Richard Cecil
Topics: Worship |
| As the kernel of old humanity, Noah and his family, was once contained in the ark, which was tossed upon the waves of the deluge; so the kernel of the new humanity, of the new creation, Christ and His Apostles, in the little ship. Author: Richard Chenevix Trench
Topics: Christ |
| It is not necessary that every single member of the body should become useless and weak before death occurs. A weakness of, or a blow upon, the heart or the brain will suffice to bring an end to life, however strong and healthy other parts of the body may be. Thus one sin by its poisonous effect on the mind and heart is sufficient to ruin the spiritual life not of one only, but of a whole family or nation, even of the whole race. Such was the sin of Adam. Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh
Topics: Sin |
| We are adopted into God's family through the resurrection of Christ from the dead in which he paid all our obligations to sin, the law, and the devil, in whose family we once lived. Our old status lies in his tomb. A new status is ours through his resurrection. Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson
Topics: Resurrection |
| The story of paradise lost becoming paradise regained is the story of God's grace bringing us from alienation from him to membership in his family. God's grace restores us to what Adam lost for us - sonship to the God who made us, loves us, and provides for us in every detail in life. Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson
Topics: Grace, Providence |
| He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Family, Foolishness |
| Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice; a princely mind will undo a private family. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Giving, Discretion |
| That is what it means to be saved. You declare that you belong to another system of things. People point to you and say, "Oh, yes, that is a Christian family; they belong to the Lord!" That is the salvation which the Lord desires for you, that by your public testimony you declare before God, "My world has gone; I am entering into another. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Salvation |
| If we verily bear the cross we shall be neither controlled nor influenced by soulical affection but shall be fit to love in the power of the Holy Spirit. Even so did the Lord Jesus love His family while on earth. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Holy Spirit, The Cross |
