Category: Quote of the Day

These are quick quotes from others in the Body who have faithfully ministered.

A Word in Season – Adam Clarke

Quote for Today

“If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands”
– Adam Clarke

Quote for Today – Thomas Boston

Quote for Today

“The regenerate man’s desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above… Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which he was to be desired; but now he is all he desires, he is altogether lovely… regenerating grace sets the affections so firmly on God, that the man is disposed, at God’s command, to quit his hold of every thing else, in order to keep his hold of Christ… If the stream of our affections were never thus turned, we are, doubtless, going down the stream into the pit”
Thomas Boston

Quote for Today – François de La Rochefoucauld

Quote for Today

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them”
– François de La Rochefoucauld

Quote for Today – Silouan

Quote for Today

“By obedience a man is guarded against pride. Prayer is given for the sake of obedience. The grace of the Holy Spirit is also given for obedience. This is why obedience is higher than prayer and fasting.”
Silouan the Athonite

D.S. Warner – True Spiritual Vision

True Spiritual Vision

“We note the characteristics of the church in the days of the apostles, which, by reason of its recent founding and organization by the Holy Spirit, is naturally regarded as exemplary and ideal. It had no creed but the Scriptures and no governance but that administered by the Holy Spirit, who “set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him”—apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, etc. Thus subject to the Spirit, the early church was flexible, capable of expansion and of walking in all the truth and of adjusting itself to all conditions. It was in very essence the church, the whole, and not a section or part. The apostles and early believers did not restrict themselves and become a Jewish Christian sect or any other kind of sect. Peter’s way of thinking would have thus limited him, for as a Jew he declined any particular interest in Gentile converts; but the Lord through a vision changed his mind and advanced his understanding to include the universality of the Christian kingdom. The Holy Spirit in the heart was necessary, of course, to the successful government of the church by the Spirit, otherwise He could not have been understood. There were no dividing lines, for it was the will of the Lord particularly that there be “one fold, and one shepherd.” Jesus had prayed in behalf of the disciples “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” These conditions of being subject to the word and Spirit, of leaving an open door through which greater light and truth might enter as was necessary, and of possessing the love and unity of spirit that cemented the believers together and carried them through all their persecution, constituted the ideal and normal status of God’s church on earth as He gave it beginning, of which it was ordained that there should be but one, only one, as long as the world should endure”

“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling.”

– D.S. Warner