The gospel declares...deliverance from our complicity in this rebellion against God, our love of darkness, our devotion to all of the worldly ideologies that authenticate our rebellion....
—David F. Wells, God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams, p. 172
The sin of the church isn’t that it’s rich, but that it hasn’t the compassion to throw even a few evangelical crumbs to starving Lazarus at the gate....We have built for ourselves big beautiful buildings...where cozy Christians sit on padded pews, living in luxury...while sinners sink into Hell!
—Ray Comfort, Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain, p. 180
1 Peter:1:7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
See All...: In our pathway here below, we must never confuse the “ways” of God with the “purposes” of God for His people. His ways with us may lead us through great trials of our faith, but His purpose is ever and always that we might be brought into eternal happiness and blessing through His love for us.
—Paul Leonard Klassen, M.D.,1969, The testimony of Ruth Hunt’s terminally ill brother as he awaited his Homegoing