Far from being a treatise meant to justify God’s righteousness in unconditional election, Romans 9—11 is a treatise about the incomprehensible mercy and scandalous faithfulness of God towards his creatures, through the crucified and resurrected Jesus Christ.
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, " I said." Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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John Green
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
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Criss Jami
Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.
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Alex Harris
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now! ' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
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Criss Jami
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Austin Fischer
The character of Jesus is the character of God. God would never do something Jesus would find morally reprehensible, so if you can’t find it in Jesus, then you really ought to think twice before you claim you’ve found it in God.
Far from being a treatise meant to justify God’s righteousness in unconditional election, Romans 9—11 is a treatise about the incomprehensible mercy and scandalous faithfulness of God towards his creatures, through the crucified and resurrected Jesus Christ.
The God of Romans 9—11 finds ways to show mercy, even when the facts clamor for judgment. This doesn’t sound much like Calvinism to me, but it does sound a whole lot like Jesus.
I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.
