Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed. F.F. Bruce
SANCTIFICATION
See also: Holiness To sanctify you wholly is to complete the work of purification and renovation begun in your regeneration. Joseph Benson He is not a Christian that thinks he is a finished Christian and is insensible how far short he falls. That man without doubt, has never so much as begun to be renewed, … Continue reading “SANCTIFICATION”
SALVATION AND THE CHURCH
To me, to whom God hath revealed his Son, in a Gospel, by a Church, there can be no way of salvation, but by applying that Son of God, by that Gospel, in that Church. John Donne
SALVATION AND GRACE ALONE
Salvation is wholly of grace, not only undeserved but undesired by us until God is pleased to awaken us to a sense of our need of it. And then we find everything prepared that our wants require or our wishes conceive; yea, that He has done exceedingly beyond what we could either ask or think. … Continue reading “SALVATION
AND GRACE ALONE”
SALVATION, NEED FOR
We must not suppose that if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world. C.S. Lewis
SALVATION, GIFT OF
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. The Bible, Ephesians 2:8, 9
SAINT
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce The saint is a saint because he received the Holy Spirit, who took up his abode with him and inwardly married himself to the soul. Abraham Kuyper Every saint is a pattern; but no saint is a pattern of everything. Henri de Tourville What is the … Continue reading “SAINT”
SADNESS
We hanged our harps upon the willows. The Bible, Psalm 137:2 kjv Instead of allowing yourself to be so unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow; just seek goodness in others, love more persons more; love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will … Continue reading “SADNESS”
SACRAMENTS, VALIDITY OF
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,–although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. Augustine of Hippo
RUSH
Great haste makes great waste. Adopt the pace of nature. Her pace is patience. Author unknown Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. Max Ehrmann Good and quickly seldom meet. George Herbert Haste in every business brings failures. Herodotus God never imposes a duty without … Continue reading “RUSH”