Top 100 Horton's Quotes
#1. A good day's filming at last ... John Horton's rabbit effects are superb. A really vicious white rabbit, which bites Sir Bor's head off. Much of the ground lost over the week is made up. We listen to the Cup Final in between fighting the rabbit
Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-0.
Michael Palin
#2. They went bowling and curling and regularly joined other couples for coffee and doughnuts at Tim Horton's.
Alice Munro
#3. When I was 22, I finally reached that huge goal. Now I'm going for another one. It's so satisfying. It's something that I worked for for so long, and just to know that I got it feels so great.
Jonathan Horton
#4. Martin Luther put it well: "I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."84
Michael S. Horton
#5. The problem is that our children increasingly have not been given enough of the Christian faith even to apostatize from it properly.
Michael S. Horton
#6. It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.
Jonathan Horton
#7. A religion of human goodness will never sustain a people in times of disaster and threat.
Michael S. Horton
#8. What could be more exciting than an October day? It's your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.
Peggy Toney Horton
#9. If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.
Charles Horton Cooley
#10. It is still through the foolishness of preaching that God gives repentance and faith.
Michael S. Horton
#11. Saving faith is not the enemy of good works, but their only possible source.
Michael S. Horton
#12. As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[
Michael S. Horton
#13. Facing another day, with ordinary callings to ordinary people all around us is much more difficult than chasing my own dreams that I have envisioned for the grand story of my life.
Michael S. Horton
#14. Bad law-preaching levels some of us; Osteen's omission of the law levels none of us; biblical preaching of the law levels all of us.
Michael S. Horton
#16. The gospel isn't just enough to justify the ungodly; it's enough to regenerate and sanctify the ungodly. However, only because (in the narrower sense) the good news announces our justification are we for the first time free to embrace God as our Father rather than our Judge.
Michael S. Horton
#18. There's a point in gymnastics where once you get to a certain age your body just isn't going to be able to handle it anymore. But I'd like to continue on as long as I'm able to help the team out and be a contributor to the success of the U.S. team.
Jonathan Horton
#19. However, the power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion he has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.
Michael S. Horton
#20. If you are always looking for an impact, a legacy, and success, you will not take the time to care for the things that matter.
Michael S. Horton
#22. Where the first Adam sought to break free of his created rank and ascend to the throne of God, the last Adam - who is God in his very nature - left his throne and descended to our misery.
Michael S. Horton
#23. Out of the lavishness displayed in the marvelous variety and richness of creation itself, God continues to pour out his common blessings on all people. Therefore, we neither hoard possessions as if God's gifts were scarce nor deny ourselves pleasures as if God were stingy.
Michael S. Horton
#24. It is the preaching of God's commands that brings conviction, while the proclamation of Christ in the gospel creates and keeps on creating faith and its fruit.
Michael S. Horton
#25. Where evangelical spiritualities tend to move from the individual to the family to the church, Reformed piety moves in the other direction: from the public means of grace to the family to the individual.
Michael S. Horton
#26. How was church today?" In most times and places of the church, this would have been an unlikely question. In fact, the hearer might have been confused. Why? Because it's like asking how the meals at home have been this week
Michael S. Horton
#27. The same word that is faith-producing and life-generating for some is for others an occasion to become more resolute in unbelief.
Michael S. Horton
#28. Start with Christ (that is, the gospel) and you get sanctification in the bargain; begin with Christ and move on to something else, and you lose both.
Michael S. Horton
#29. We rise up to God in pride, while God descends to us in humility.
Michael S. Horton
#30. If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.
Michael S. Horton
#31. People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it's the stuff we CAN understand. It's cats that are complicated.
John Horton Conway
#32. In his bestseller, The Shallows, Nicholas Carr argues that in the Internet age we are losing our capacity for deep thinking, reading, and conversation.
Michael S. Horton
#33. We are not called to live the gospel but to believe the gospel and to follow the law in view of God's mercies.
Michael S. Horton
#35. In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.
Judd Rose
#36. Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:
Michael S. Horton
#37. We've forgotten that God showers his extraordinary gifts through ordinary means of grace, loves us through ordinary fellow image bearers, and sends us out into the world to love and serve others in ordinary callings.
Michael S. Horton
#38. If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.
Michael S. Horton
#41. The more we understand God's truth, the more we are struck by the mystery.
Michael S. Horton
#42. The Bible knows nothing of any contrast between truth and experience, head and heart, theology and practical living.
Michael S. Horton
#43. But here's how it works: when the world has told you once too often and once and for all that you are nothing nothing nothing then you come to the conclusion that others may be nothing too.
J.W. Horton
#44. God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.
Michael Horton
#45. We are justified through faith in Christ, not through doctrinal precision.
Michael S. Horton
#46. The fact that makes sin so utterly sinful is that it is ultimately against God.
Michael S. Horton
#47. Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts - it's able to endure temptations - because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they're] not there.
Michael S. Horton
#48. I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one.
Peggy Toney Horton
#49. So get on with life, with love, with service - fully realizing that God already has the perfect service he requires of us in his Son and now our neighbor needs our imperfect help.
Michael S. Horton
#50. A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.
Horton Foote
#52. One of the things about my sport that's important is consistency - being able to do your routines consistently and training consistently. If you change it up or try to make everything more intense because the Olympics is coming up, you tend to put too much pressure on your mind and your body.
Jonathan Horton
#53. Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.
Michael Horton
#54. A ministry based on pragmatism is built on sand regardless of whether it is more traditional or contemporary.
Michael S. Horton
#55. The power of our activism, campaigns, movements, and strategies cannot forgive sins or raise the dead.
Michael S. Horton
#57. Doctrine severed from practice is dead; practice severed from doctrine is just another form of self-salvation and self-improvement. A disciple of Christ is a student of theology.
Michael S. Horton
#58. To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Charles Horton Cooley
#59. Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.
Michael Horton
#60. An implication of God's independence from the world is that he is who he is eternally and will always be. All of God's acts are consistent with his nature. God determines the world's course; the world does not determine God's course.
Michael S. Horton
#61. When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.
Michael S. Horton
#62. Only a misunderstanding of Calvin's theology could prompt the question Why pray if God is sovereign? The Reformer himself might turn the question back on us: Why pray if God isn't sovereign?
Michael S. Horton
#63. Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
Michael Horton
#65. Paul never encouraged Timothy to contemplate his personal "legacy.
Michael S. Horton
#66. I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
Horton Foote
#67. The gospel is not something you can just tack on to another worldview. On the contrary, it makes you rethink everything from the ground up, from the center out.
Michael S. Horton
#68. When you are trying to sell a product like therapeutic transformation, there can be no ambiguity, no sense of anxiety, tension, or struggle.
Michael S. Horton
#69. This is what God requires of us: to fulfill our obligations, to be faithful to our contracts, to pay our debts, and to honor our word. Anything short is fraud, regardless of how much we think the other party "deserves" what we owe.
Michael S. Horton
#70. There's very few of us who are able to be successful, which is why so many guys out of college can't continue the sport. It's unfortunate because there's just no financial backing. I've been very blessed with sponsors.
Jonathan Horton
#71. Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds a little pretentious, I know. But that's really what I set for myself.
Horton Foote
#72. We want big results-sooner rather than later. And we've forgotten that God showers his extraordinary gifts through ordinary means of grace, loves us through ordinary fellow image bearers, and sends us into the world to love and serve others in ordinary callings. Michael Horton, Ordinary, 14
Michael S. Horton
#73. As a receiving instrument, faith comes by hearing, while idolatry is engendered by the impatient demand for that which is seen and experienced directly by the senses.
Michael S. Horton
#74. Theologies of glory ascend to heaven with humanly devised methods for bringing Christ down or for descending into the depths to make him living and real to us, but a theology of the cross receives him in the humble and weak form of those creaturely means that he has ordained.3
Michael S. Horton
#75. The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.
Charles Horton Cooley
#76. Preaching is necessary not because it's a magic but because God has ordained it for the justification and sanctification of sinners.
Michael S. Horton
#77. I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.
Michael S. Horton
#78. Like every other area of life, we have come to believe that growth in Christ - as individuals or as churches - can and should be programmed to generate predictable outcomes that are unrealistic and are not even justified biblically. We want big results - sooner rather than later.
Michael S. Horton
#79. Where did we get the idea that older folks need to be given a "kid-free" environment with other "golden oldies," and that men's groups and women's groups are more meaningful than the communion of saints?
Michael S. Horton
#80. Patient dedication to the ordinary and often tedious disciplines of corporate and family worship, teaching, prayer, modeling, and mentoring have been eroded by successive waves of enthusiasm.
Michael S. Horton
#81. It is nothing new when young people want churches to pander to them. What is new is the extent to which churches have obliged.
Michael S. Horton
#82. When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.
Michael Horton
#83. It's all coming back to me now: last night, Phil Constavia and I had dinner in San Diego's Glass Lamp District just before rushing into Horton Plaza to catch a chick-flick.
Laura Jane Hermanson
#84. The Next Big Thing is Christ's return. Until then, we live in hope that changes our ordinary lives here and now.
Michael S. Horton
#85. What we moderns call "addictions" God calls "idols," and all of God's good gifts are meant to raise our eyes in thanksgiving to our benevolent heavenly Father, not to fix our eyes on the gifts themselves.
Michael S. Horton
#86. God's downward descent to us in grace reversed by our upward ascent in pragmatic enthusiasm, we are increasingly becoming a sheep without a Shepherd - and all in the name of mission. Instead of churching the unchurched, we are well on our way to even unchurching the churched.
Michael S. Horton
#87. The Next Big Thing is not another Pentecost or another apostle or another political or social cause. It is Christ's return.
Michael S. Horton
#88. Writing unlocks the heart and soul that we might be receptive to God's blessings.
Peggy Toney Horton
#89. Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.
Peggy Toney Horton
#90. Nothing comes close to the wisdom that God has displayed in the salvation of sinners.
Michael S. Horton
#91. The Old Testament cannot really be understood apart from Jesus Christ, it is true, but neither can Jesus Christ be truly understood apart from the history of Israel.
Michael S. Horton
#92. Often, this cry for more practical preaching is the call of the old Adam for more self-help.
Michael S. Horton
#94. Surely it is not the business of the Church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ.
Michael S. Horton
#95. You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.
Myles Horton
#96. Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
Douglas Horton
#97. In essence, don't wait for the host to move you to the children's table.
Michael S. Horton
#98. If the eternal Son could become fully human without sin (Heb 4:15), then surely God can communicate his truth through thoroughly human ambassadors while preserving their writings from error.
Michael S. Horton
#99. We are passive receivers of the gift of salvation, but we are thereby rendered active worshipers in a life of thanksgiving that is exhibited chiefly in loving service to our neighbors.
Michael S. Horton
#100. Wherever Reformed convictions gained a foothold, there was a revival of classical learning and interest in the arts and sciences - not only among the highly educated, but even among the daily laborer, who also had more access to basic education.
Michael S. Horton
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