AndyGrice’s most recent Quotables

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

There are hearers who make themselves, and not the Scripture, the standard of their judgment. They attend not so much to be instructed, as to pass their sentence. To them, the pulpit is the bar at which the minister stands to take his trial before them; a bar at which few escape censure, from judges at once so severe and inconsistent.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Life must be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

When you are in the right, you can afford to keep your temper; and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

The dangers for young preachers are to focus on what people think rather than what God says and therefore to see it as a performance and not a declaration, and to forget that the Lord is with you all the way as you seek His glory in people's lives.

God loves to show mercy... His anger must be released by a stiff saftey lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger.

The gospel is good news concerning the Kingdom, and the Kingdom is God's rule over the totality of life. Every human need, therefore, can be used by the Spirit of God as a beachhead for the manifestation of his kingly power.

It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds and stewards of the new day that is dawning. That, quite simply, is what it means to be a Christian, to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little and therefore receive little and are content with little.

The_gospel_is_good_news_of_sal vation.It was promised from eternity,was secured and purchased by Jesus Christ,and is now offered to friends.

First,we must communicate it faithfully,we shall undoubtedly suffer for it.

And when we suffer for it,we shall be tempted to trim it and to eliminate the elements that provoke opposition.

So then, third,and above all,we must guard it against every possible corruption,keeping it pure whatever the_cost.

Guard it faithfully,spread it actively, suffer for it bravely—that is our threefold duty.

Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?”

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

None-are-more-exposed-to-sland ers-and-insults-than-godly-tea chers.This comes not only from the difficulty of their duties, which are so great that sometimes they sink under them,or stagger or halt or take a false step,so that wicked men find many occasions of finding fault with them;but added to that,even when they do all their duties correctly and commit not even the smallest error,they never avoid a thousand criticisms...[T]he-more-sincer ely-any-pastor-strives-to-furt her-Christ’s-kingdom,the more he is loaded with spite,the more fierce do the attacks upon him become.

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.