These Blessed Us:  Quotes

David Platt (Radical)

The modern-day gospel says,

"God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved."

Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says,

"You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, and in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do."

(Arrangement and bold ours)

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Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest)

"We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing – that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future.

But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment.

If we have God's assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life." 

(Italics ours.)

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George Mueller (George Mueller of Bristol by A. T. Pierson)

When asked what God had taught him most deeply about life, George Mueller (1805-1898), pastor and philanthropist, explained:

"There was a day when I died, utterly died, died to George Mueller, his opinions, preferences, tastes and will, died to the world, its approval or censure, died to the approval or blame even of my brethren and friends, and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God."

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Jim Elliot

The following are a few of Jim Elliot's excellent quotes (from the taped series 'Through Gates of Splendor' as narrated by Elisabeth Elliot)

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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep

to gain what he cannot lose.

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Simplicity of heart and freedom from anxiety

He expects of us and gives grace to have both.

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The Lord has given me a hunger for righteousness and piety

that can alone be of Himself. Such hungering He alone can satisfy.

Yet Satan would delude and cast up all sorts of other baubles -

social life, a name renowned, a position of importance,

scholastic attainment.

What are these but the objects of the desire of the Gentiles

whose cravings are warped and perverted?

Surely they can mean nothing to the soul

who has seen the beauty of Christ.

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Life is not here but hid above with Christ in God

and therein I rejoice and sing as I think on such exaltation.

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