Philip Graham Ryken famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.
-- Philip Graham Ryken

#Idols #Shelves #Significance
God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name. Whatever we happen to make-not only in the visual arts, but in all the arts-we should make it as well as we can, offering God our very best.
-- Philip Graham Ryken

#Art #Offering #Names
To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is the incarnation of the truth. It penetrates the surface of things to portray them as they really are.
-- Philip Graham Ryken

#Art #Important #Surface
When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is to help them confess their sins and find forgiveness in Christ, and then welcome them back into the fellowship of the church.
-- Philip Graham Ryken

#Christian #Church #Needs
The content of worship comes from the Bible, the goal of worship is to give praise to God, and the basis for worship is the saving work of Jesus Christ. Put more simply, true Christian worship is Word-communicat ing, God-glorifying, and Christ-confessi ng.
-- Philip Graham Ryken

#Christian #Jesus #Giving
It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.
-- Philip Graham Ryken

#Art #Self #Expression
The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.
-- Philip Graham Ryken

#Jesus #Inward #Fruits Of The Spirit
The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.
-- Philip Graham Ryken

#Support #Guilt #Weight

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.
Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think thatâ€™s hip. Sheâ€™s promoting knowing yourself, and thatâ€™s the best idol.
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond...
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
Everything I own has some significance to me.

Philip Graham Ryken famous quotes

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