“Ungodly men are too impatient to wait for solid and eternal pleasures, but snatch at the pleasures of sin, which are but for a season. These resemble children who cannot tarry till the grapes are ripe, and therefore eat them sour and green.” Pleasure lies mainly […]
As soon as we take upon ourselves the task of speaking about God, the question at once arises: How can we? We are men, and He is the Lord our God. There does not appear to exist such a relationship and connection between Him and us […]
To be in Christ is the source of the Christian’s life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy. —Charles Hodge, A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, 317.
It is the duty of the faithful to “present their bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God;” and that in this consists the legitimate worship of him. Hence is deduced an argument for exhorting them: “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed […]
There is no other method of living piously and justly, than that of depending upon God. —John Calvin Commentary on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis, 1:444.