Ds. D.A. van den Bosch schreef:Zal er voor u en mij ooit iets goeds komen voor de eeuwigheid, dan zal het moeten zijn door de kracht des Heiligen Geestes. Gij hebt thuis een Bijbel; gij leest er in tweemaal per dag met het gezin, ook nog voor u zelf, uitnemend. Tweemaal per zondag naar de kerk, ook nog naar de Bijbellezing, gij zondert uw gaven af voor ’t Godsrijk, prachtig, prachtig. Maar de Heilige Geest… Laat er zijn: gebed om die Geest. Gelovig gebed.

Hollander schreef:"Er zijn twee soorten christenen; zij die oprecht geloven in Christus en zij die oprecht geloven dat ze geloven in Christus."

(Volgens mij afkomstig van Richard Wurmbrand)

C. W. Hodge jr. schreef:Waar ootmoedige mensen het zicht op Gods glorie ontvangen en zich voor Hem in aanbidding en nederigheid neerbuigen, alleen vertrouwend op verlossing door Zijn genade en kracht, daar hebt u het wezen van het gereformeerde geloof.

Thomas Mann schreef:Tolerantie word een misdaad als ze wordt toegepast op het kwaad.

Eric Hoffer, Amerikaans filosoof schreef:I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us.

Tim Keller schreef:What that means is though the Son has bought it, the Spirit has actually brought it. The Son has bought it, and the Spirit has brought it. It says, for example, in John 16, Jesus says, ‘The Spirit will come and take of mine and show me to you. He will glorify me.’ The Spirit’s job is to melt you under the truth.

Back in the old days, before we had wonderful glued envelopes, do you know how you sealed an envelope if you wrote it? What you had to have is you had to have a little piece of wax, right? You had to have a seal (usually a signet ring), and you had to have a flame. So you softened the wax with the flame, and what the flame did to the wax was it made the wax susceptible to the seal.

If you tried to put the seal on the wax without the flame, there are only two things that could happen. What? It could break the wax, or it could just leave only a superficial outline on the surface. But if the wax is changed, it’s softened by the flame, then the wax is susceptible, and it’s changed in the image of the seal. Now that illustration, transform it. The wax is your heart. The seal is the Truth, the Word of God, and the flame is the Spirit.

When I go to the Truth of God, and the Spirit is giving me access, do you see what happens? You can read about the power of God. If you just read about the power of God, without the influence of Spirit, you say, ‘Oh, God is powerful.’ Without the influence of the Spirit, all that can do is make a superficial impression on the top of you, but when the Spirit of God is there, you read about the power, and there’s access. The truth begins to shine. It begins to change you, and what happens is your heart develops courage.

When you read about his goodness, it develops peace in you. When you read about his forgiveness, it develops relief in you. You shake off your guilty fears. When you read about his forgiveness, it develops generosity and mercy in you. When you read about his holiness, it develops conviction of sin and humility in you. Don’t you see? Only when the Spirit of God is doing that do you see real access happening. Only then.

Onmogelijk in elke andere godsdienst: Een heilige God wil vrienden zijn met zondige mensen. Psalm 103 zingt: Hij is het die ons Zijne vriendschap biedt!