Great Quotes

- C.S. Lewis, Is Theology Poetry?  The Weight of Glory and other Addresses (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1980), p. 140 

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"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit and not a vegetable.  Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad."

- Author Unknown

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"Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something.  Where are your choices taking your life?  What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?"

- By Eric Allenbaugh

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"The merits of my cause should not be judged by my ability to present it."

- By C.I. Scofield

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"As a young man I heard Dr. A. T. Pierson speak on Job.  He said that a small boy often pased a smithy and watched the work.  With a small hammer the master touched lightly the white hot iron on the anvil and his man brought down the heavy sledge.  Apparently a budding trade unionist, the boy seemed to think this an unfair division of labour, and asked the smith what he did with his tiny taps.  Oh, said the master, I'm showing him where to hit!  And thus, said the preacher, God puts his finger on the weak point in His child's character, and the devil brings down the sledge-hammer of affliction to weld that character into one whole and strong nature.  Then he added quaintly, 'And thus the Lord makes the devil sweat for the saint's benefit.'"

From G.H. Lang's, World Chaos

First Edition - 1949 Paternoster Press
Second Edition - 1988 Schoettle Publishing Co., Inc.

pp. 52-53

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"There are four types of men in this world:  1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him.  2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows.  3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him.  4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him."

- From Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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 "If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead."

- By William Law

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   I. THE QUESTION OPENED

   This is a small contribution to a great theme.

   At the beginning let it be stated distinctly that this paper assumes and asserts that no person once having been accounted righteous before the bar of God, because of the imputation to him upon faith in Christ of the 'free gift of righteousness,' can return to his former unjustified standing before God, or can forfeit the 'free gift of God (which) is eternal life.'  No redeemed person that left Egypt under Moses ever was permitted by God to get back to the place and state whence he had been freed by blood and by power, not even those who on their part said 'Let us make us a captain, and let us return to Egypt; (Num. 14:4).  They missed indeed the best results of redemption, but the redemption itself was never reversed.  In the matter of final salvation 'grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord' (Rom. 5:16, 7, 21:6, 23).

   But it is generally agreed that in the millennial kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ rewards will be proportionate to service now rendered.  And by some it is further urged that this principle of recompense applies also to the matter of entering that kingdom at all.  It is held that Scripture teaches that some believers may be accounted unworthy of any place in that kingdom.

   Involved of necessity in this is the further suggestion that to rise in the first resurrection is not guaranteed, but is a privilege open indeed to every believer, but which may be forfeited by unworthy conduct.  Thus, if attained, it is of the nature of a prize, as Paul says in connection with the resurrection from among the dead, 'I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God" (Phil,. 3:4) - a prize offered indeed by the grace of God, and also to be won only through the working of that same grace, but which, like all prizes, is possible of forfeiture if grace be neglected or abused.

   These suggestion [sic] ought not to be dismissed so lightly as by some is the case.  With variations in detail they have been held by many devout and able teachers, including R. C. Chapman, Hudson Taylor, Robert Govett, and G. H. Pember, to mention some well-known names of orthodox saints and scholars.  Lists of names do not establish doctrine, if only for the reason that they can be cited on all sides of all questions.  But where equally honest and able servants of God, all true to the faith of the gospel, avow differences of judgment the case is one for toleration, not condemnation, for enquiry, not bigotry.

   The appeal must be to the Word of God alone, and each student should seek its meaning for himself, imploring the illumination that the Spirit of truth alone can give, yet not forgetting that He may be pleased to give it through some fellow-student of the Word.  Yet should one never pin oneself to any single teacher or any one school on interpretation.  And if one's results do not always or at first agree with those of his brethren let him be patient, pray further, search further, and on no account denounce those who differ from him or separate from them.  There are truths so fundamental to faith and salvation that no divergence upon them can be tolerated without disloyalty to Christ, but the matters here discussed are not of that class.


- From G.H. Lang's  Ideals and Realities - An Inquiry into the Interacting of the Will of God and the Will of Man in relation to Sharing in the Millennial Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.

First Edition - 1934 S. E. Roberts, Publisher
Second Edition - 1988 Schoettle Publishing Co., Inc.

PP. 4-5

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Which Jesus do you follow?
Which Jesus do you serve?
If Ephesians says to imitate Christ,
Why do you look so much like the world?

CHORUS:
Cause my Jesus bled and died,
He spent His time with thieves and liars.
He loved the poor and accosted the arrogant,
So which one do you want to be?

Blessed are the poor in spirit,
But do we pray to people less than the wealth of this man?
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness,
But do we ache for another taste of this world of shifting sand?

Cause my Jesus bled and died for my sins,
He spent his time with thieves and sluts and liars.
He loved the poor and accosted the rich,
So which one do you want to be?

And who is this that you follow,
This picture of the american dream?
If Jesus were here would you walk right by on the other side,
Or fall down and worship at His holy feet?

Pretty blue eyes and curly brown hair and a clear complexion-
Is how you see him as He dies for your sins.
But the Word says he was battered and scourged,
Or did you miss that part?
Sometimes I doubt we'd recognize Him.

Cause my Jesus bled and died for my sins,
He spent his time with thieves and the least of these.
He loved the poor and accosted the comfortable,
So which one do you want to be?

Cause my Jesus would never be accepted in my church,
The blood and dirt on His feet might stain the carpet.
But He reaches for the hurting and despises the proud,
And I think He'd prefer Biel (sp?) Street to the stained-glass crowd,
And I know that He can hear me when I cry out loud...

... I wanna be like my Jesus

Not a poster child for American prosperity, like my Jesus.
See I'm tired of living for success and popularity.
I wanna be like my Jesus,
But I'm not sure what that means, to be like You, Jesus,
Cause You said to live like You, to love like You, but then you died for me.

Can I be like You Jesus?

I wanna be like You, Jesus


-Todd Agnew's song, "My Jesus"
From the Album "Reflection of Something," released August 16, 2005
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