DOZR

Jan 04 2011 ∞

Burnout is not when you get so drained you can’t work anymore. Burnout is when you get so drained that your work becomes ineffective. Satan doesn’t want to take you out of ministry, he just wants your ministry to be powerless.

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“ Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind
dreading to find its Father lest it find
the Goodness it has dreaded is not good.
— W. H. Auden

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“ The human heart, even the redeemed heart, has an allergy to God. At times we want to avoid God, not only because we want to evade doing his will, but because we retain a slavish fear of him, springing from unbelief.
— Richard Lovelace

May 16 2008 ∞
“ Once after Spurgeon had given a particularly powerful sermon, he was standing at the door of the church greeting people. A man came up to him, gushing and saying, “That was the greatest sermon I have ever heard! And you are the greatest preacher alive!” Spurgeon looked at the man and said, “Yes, the devil told me that ten minutes ago!

May 14 2008 ∞
“ I could’ve saved thousands if only I could convince them that they’re slaves.
— Harriet Tubman

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“ The world is at present in a mighty hurry, and being in many places cut off from all foundations of steadfastness, it makes the minds of men giddy with its revolutions, or disorderly in the expectations of them … hence men walk and talk as if the world were all, when comparatively it is nothing. And when men come with their warmed affections, reeking with thoughts of these things, unto the performance of or attendance unto any spiritual duty, it is very difficult for them, if not impossible, to stir up any grace unto a due and vigorous exercise.
— John Owen, from “The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded”

May 13 2008 ∞
“ A crucified style best suits the preachers of a crucified Christ … Words are but servants to matter. An iron key, fitted to the wards of the lock, is more useful than a golden one that will not open the door to the treasures … Prudence will cast away a thousand fine words for one that is apt to penetrate the conscience and reach the heart.
— John Flavel

May 11 2008 ∞
“ American Christianity is plagued by truncated views of all God’s attributes. And a truncated view of God will give raise to truncated Christian living and truncated awakenings. Therefore the awakening and revival that I pray for will be not just for the fullness of the Spirit’s power, but for the fullness of the Spirit’s illumination of God in the word.
— John Piper

May 10 2008 ∞
“ Nobody paid me to preach. Because they couldn’t pay me enough. And they couldn’t pay me too little. Because the call doesn’t come from them—it comes from God.
— Alistair Begg

Apr 28 2008 ∞
“ Puritan authors regularly tell us, first, of the mystery of God: that our God is too small, that the real God cannot be put without remainder into a man-made conceptual box so as to be fully understood; and that he was, is, and always will be bewilderingly inscrutable in his dealing with those who trust and love him, so that ‘losses and crosses’, that is, bafflement and disappointment in relation to particular hopes one has entertained, must be accepted as a recurring element in one’s life of fellowship with him.
— J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness

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