Question, and Favorite Quotes

It's been two full weeks since I rededicated my blog.

I have a question for you: How do you think it's going?

I want to make sure this is actually stuff you all want to read, or enjoy reading. I want to make sure this isn't just me talking and nobody listening.

So far what I've decided to do is to post relevant articles, sermons, discussions, and papers on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and posting a fun something-or-other on Saturdays.

Is that a good plan? Is that a plan that is working?

And so you're not left hanging (since this is the extent of my Friday post this week), I'll throw you guys some of my favorite quotes!

I know my blog readers have access to most of them in the footer of the blog, but my xanga users haven't seen them in awhile...

Enjoy!

-R.T.

Favorite Quotes

"How fair and lovely is the hope which the Lord gave to the dead when He lay down like them beside them. Rise up and come forth and sing praise to Him who has raised you from destruction." - Syrian Orthodox Liturgy

"But for the grace of God, there go I." -John Bradford

"O Lord, You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in You." - St. Augustine, "Confessions" 1.1.1

"There is not a square inch on the whole plain of human existence over which Christ, who is Lord over all, does not proclaim: 'This is Mine!' " -Abraham Kuyper

"The universe is before our eyes like a beautiful book in which all creatures, great and small, are as letters to make us ponder the invisible things of God." -The Belgic Confession, Article 2

"In Scripture, people are elected not to feel good but to do good. Salvation is a gift of sheer grace, which God intends to flow through saved persons and out to others." - Cornelius Plantinga Jr. "Engaging God's World"

"I had rather see coming toward me a whole regiment with drawn swords, than one lone Calvinist convinced that he is doing the will of God." - Nocholas Wolterstoff, "Justice and Peace"

"My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. God help me. Amen." - Martin Luther, to Emperor Charles V, at the Diet of Worms in April 1521

"If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in His presence. The people who are flippant and familiar are those who have never yet been introduced to Jesus Christ." - Oswald Chambers

"All truth is God’s truth. Whether the truth be force equals mass times acceleration, or the dates of World War I and II, God is Truth." - Arthur Holmes, Professor at Wheaton College

"The most incredible man the world has ever known is Jesus, and the most incredible word the world has ever known is grace." - Dr. Drew Randle, my friend, and professor of Christian Ministry at Bryan College

"A virtuous wife is not a barking chihuahua!" - Dave Ramsey, on women not nagging their husbands.

"We're all just looking for a standard we can rise above." - Matt Williams, regarding legalism within the Body.

"God's being very ninja like!" - Sarah Lane

"Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four." - Ivan Turgenev, novelist and playwright.

“God doesn't do stuff because it's right. It's right because God does it.” - Sam Spatola