Quotes About Gospel

We don't like death. We'd rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the gospel.

una Iglesia que ha olvidado el Evangelio y que, para no perder sus privilegios, miente, engaña y es capaz de interpretar las palabras de Jesús a su conveniencia.

It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."

That even under the gospel of peace and reconciliation by Christ (of which the intercession of Moses was typical) the moral law should continue to bind believers.

An earnest exhortation to stand fast in the liberty of the gospel. (1-12)

The gospel dispensation is not properly a dispensation of fear, sorrow, and dread, but of peace and joy. Terror and astonishment may well attend mount Sinai, but exultation and joy mount Zion, where appears the eternal Word, the eternal life, manifested in our flesh.

Christ, under the law, appeared on a red horse, denoting the terror of that dispensation, and that he had yet his conflict before him, when he was to resist unto blood. But, under the gospel, he appears on a white horse

And this is the appointment of God himself; for as, under the law, those who ministered about holy things lived of the things of the temple, so hath the Lord ordained that those who preach the gospel should live of the gospel, 1 Cor. 9:11, 13, 14.

The times of the gospel are the last times, the gospel revelation is the last we are to expect from God.

The gospel excludes none who do not exclude themselves.

Christians must not forbear speaking the truth, for fear of offending others. The false teachers who drew the Galatians from the truth of the gospel were designing men. They pretended affection, but they were not sincere and upright. An excellent rule is given. It is good to be zealous always in a good thing; not for a time only, or now and then, but always. Happy would it be for the church of Christ, if this zeal was better maintained.

The law only shows us our disease; the gospel shows us our help in Christ.

Pure hands must be lifted up without wrath, and all our gospel feasts kept with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know—that is curiosity. To know, to be known—that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know—that is gospel duty.

A sweet attractive kind of grace,A full assurance given by looks,Continual comfort in a face,The lineaments of Gospel books;I trow that countenance cannot lie.Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

Conversion, constant conversion, is the message of the Gospel.

A flourishing human life is the best advertisement for the gospel, and the gospel in turn empowers us to become better people.

for Paul the cross is the quintessential, unified act of loyalty to God and love for others—what Paul, like Jesus, understands to be the essence of the Jewish Law, the covenant obligations for God's people to love God and neighbor.8 This perspective will form the foundation of Paul's understanding of the appropriate human response to the gospel—a unified response of faith and love—as God's way of forming a (new) covenant community.

Before hardness of heart sets in from experiencing the hurts of this life, vulnerable children can learn to trust the message of hope and salvation that is found in the gospel.

Augustine once warned, "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."80

The Holy Spirit was wooing the people. Revival was in the air. Now it must be stated clearly: There is nothing wrong with local organizing committees, talented Gospel singers, and newspaper and television advertising. But our reliance on all these tools to bring in the people reveals a sad condition—the Spirit is hardly present and we are trying to make up for His relative absence. To be perfectly frank, we need to do all these things right now. Otherwise hardly anyone would show up!

Augustine once commented, "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

just them by themselves Mark apparently thought that simply writing "Jesus took Peter and James and John" would leave open the possibility that others joined them, so he clarifies that the four were "just them by themselves." Generally we must take care not to attribute more exactness to a Gospel text than is strictly required. For example, if the evangelist gives a list, we are not justified in inferring that the list is exhaustive.

Parents cannot impart righteousness to their children, but they can help them develop a firm commitment to righteousness. Parents cannot write the law on the hearts of their children, but they can weave the law and the gospel into their developing consciences.