Richard Gaffin famous quotes

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Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering.
-- Richard Gaffin

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How so? Briefly, apart from the gospel and outside of Christ, the law is my enemy and condemns me. Why? Because God is my enemy and condemns me. But with the gospel and in Christ, united to him by faith, the law is no longer my enemy but my friend. Why? Because now God is no longer my enemy but my friend, and the law, his willâ€”the law in its moral core, as reflective of his character and of concerns eternally inherent in his own person and so of what pleases himâ€”is now my friendly guide for life in fellowship with God.
-- Richard Gaffin

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God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.
I love the voice - itâ€™s the most perfect instrument ever heard. Itâ€™s God given.
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.
Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
So perfect â€” Iâ€™m right where I need to be!
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

Richard Gaffin famous quotes

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