Quotes of: Isaac Keyword

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.

Joseph Rotblat

The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Augustus Waters was the Mayor of the Secret City of Cancervania, and he is not replaceable", Isaac began. "Other people will be able to tell you funny stories about Gus, because he was a funny guy, but let me tell you a serious one: A day after I got...

The Fault in Our Stars

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another — that, in fact, has never been observed.

Calculating God

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.

The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters

The nature of pure and genuine religion…consists in faith, united with a serious fear of God, comprehending a voluntary reverence, and producing legitimate worship agreeable to the injunctions of the law.

A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

When the crucified Jesus is called "the image of the invisible God," the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.

The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.

Culture and Value

Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

Culture and Value

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-Lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World