"There is little good
in filling churches with people who go out exactly the same as they
came
in; the call of the Church is not to fill churches but to fill heaven."
Fr. Andrew SDC "The Way
of Victory"
"If you believe what
you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the
Gospel
you believe, but yourself."
Augustine of Hippo
"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I
never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.'"
Augustine of Hippo
"The love of God in all other
things, in comparison of the love of God in Christ revealed in the
gospel, is as a little spark of fire in
comparison of the heat in a furnace."
Jeremiah Burroughs, (1599-1646), Gospel
Conversation, p.75
"By the
light of nature we see God
as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against
us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us."
Matthew
Henry
"The
Resurrection is
the central theme in every Christian sermon reported in the Acts. The
Resurrection,
and its consequences, were the 'gospel' or good news which the
Christians
brought: what we call the 'gospels,' the narratives of Our Lord's life
and death, were composed later for the benefit of those who had already
accepted the gospel. They were in no sense the basis of Christianity:
they
were written for those already converted. The miracle of the
Resurrection,
and the theology of that miracle, comes first: the biography comes
later
as a comment on it. Nothing could be more unhistorical than to pick out
selected sayings of Christ from the gospels and to regard those as the
datum and the rest of the New Testament as a construction upon it. The
first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say
they have seen the Resurrection."
C.S. Lewis
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