I will this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene life; repelling promptly every thought of discontent, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every […]
It may not satisfy the temporary needs at the time, but it will satisfy something bigger, grander and more eternal. That biblically defined purpose is that we might worship God and enjoy Him forever. Apart from that, man has no other purpose; and short of that, […]
Ignorance of God and ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our anxieties; and this arises mostly, not from want of light and instruction, but for want of consideration and application. Adapted from The Works of John Owen, 6:637. John Owen
We are modern people, and modern people, though they cherish great thoughts of themselves, have as a rule small thoughts of God. Knowing God, 83. J. I. Packer
More and more people imagine that Christ exists for our sake, while the much richer notion of our existing for the sake of Christ does not arise. Pro Rege Abraham Kuyper