{"quotes":[{"text":"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.","author":"John Piper","tags":["missions","reformed","theology"],"id":22071,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"The Gospel does not say, 'you must do good works.' Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!","author":"C.F.W. Walther","tags":["devotional","gospel","law","lutheran","reformed"],"id":31886,"author_id":"C.F.W.+Walther"},{"text":"It is better to lose your life than to waste it.","author":"John Piper","tags":["reformed","theology"],"id":70266,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that anyone is entirely destitute of virtue, nor that human nature is equal in itself, nor that man’s spirit in inactive, and much less does it mean that the body is dead. What is does mean is that since the fall, man rests under the curse of sin, that he is actuated by wrong principles, and that he is wholly unable to love God, or to do anything meriting salvation. His corruption is extensive, but not necessarily intensive. It is in this sense that man, since the fall, is utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, wholly inclined to all evil. He possesses a fixed bias of the will against God, and instinctively and willingly and turns to evil. He is an alien by birth, and a sinner by choice. The inability under which he labors is not an inability to exercise volition, but an inability to be willing to exercise holy volitions. And it is this phase of it which led Luther to declare that ‘free will’ is an empty term, whose reality is lost; and a lost liberty, according to my grammar, is no liberty at all.","author":"Loraine Boettner","tags":["doctrine","free-will","loraine-boettner","predestination","reformed","religion"],"id":75378,"author_id":"Loraine+Boettner"},{"text":"We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["apologetics","christianity","francis-schaeffer","legal-theory","politics","reformed"],"id":110516,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.","author":"John Piper","tags":["reformed","theology"],"id":130480,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["apologetics","christianity","francis-schaeffer","government","legal-theory","politics","reformed"],"id":163335,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"A country can be reformed only through a spiritual restoration.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["country","reformed","restoration","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":174153,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.","author":"John Piper","tags":["reformed","theology"],"id":177760,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"When we love God in sincerity and with consistency, He gives us the desires of our heart. And as we love Him how we should be loving Him, our desires are somehow supernaturally conformed to be His desires for us! So, love God, with all that you are in all truth and devotion, and He will reward you according to His will. This is not something that we are capable of by ourselves, but God is faithful to give His chosen ones victory!","author":"Rachel Walden","tags":["conformed","consistent-love","desiring-god","love-for-god","love-god","rachel-walden","reformed","sanctification","sanctified","sincere","sincere-love","sincerity","victory","victory-in-christ","victory-in-jesus"],"id":202539,"author_id":"Rachel+Walden"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}