Quotes for me to live out 2008

The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us. – John Stott

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough… Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die. – Martin Luther

Oh, the havoc that is wrought, and the tragedy, the misery and the wretchedness that are to be found in the world, simply because people do not know how to handle their own feelings! – D. Martin Lloyd – Jones

Lest I forget Gethsemane,
Lest I forget Thine agony;
Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary
- Jennie Evelyn Hussey

Men are opposed to God in their sin, and God is opposed to men in his holiness. – J. I. Packer

The debt was so great, that while men alone owed it, only God could pay it. – Anselm

The garden of Gethsemane is one of the most sacred and solemn scenes in the entire Bible. – Sinclair Ferguson

We may try to wash our hands of responsibility like Pilate, but our attempt twill be futile, as futile as his. For there is blood on our hands. – John R. W. Stott

This cry represents the most agonizing protest ever uttered on this planet. It burst forth in a moment of unparalleled pain. It is the scream of the damned – for us. – R. C. Sproul

The God on whom we reply knows what suffering is all about not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience. – D. A. Carson

Nothing in my hand I bring;
Simply to your cross I cling.
– Augustine Toplady

How easily we fall into the trap of assuming that we remain justified only so long as there are grounds in our character for justification. – Sinclair Ferguson

All the love and the acceptance which perfect obedience could have obtained of God, belong to you – Because Christ was perfectly obedient on your behalf. – Charles Spurgeon

The traveler through the Bible landscape misses his way as soon as he loses sight of the hill called Calvary. – J. I. Packer

The Spirit does not take his pupils beyond the cross, but ever more deeply into it. – J. Knox Chamblin