Quotemeal: Sep. 24th, 2013

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."
— Mark Finley

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"All earthly delights are but "streams." But God is the ocean."
— Jonathan Edwards —
"The more man becomes irradiated with the divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man."
— Phillips Brooks —
"Faith, mighty faith the promise sees|And rests on that alone:|Laughs at impossibilities,|And says it shall be done."
— Charles Wesley —
"Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own..."
— J. I. Packer —

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Illustration of Mark Finley — "We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."

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