Joel Beeke Quotes

#1. Gospel optimism leads to kingdom prayer. This psalm should move us to pray - and to pray with great hope and expectation - that the kingdom of Christ will prevail against the powers of evil and that all His elect will be brought in and made holy.

Joel R. Beeke

#2. Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation.

Joel Beeke

#3. God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.

Joel Beeke

#4. Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one's priorities; one's sentimental and psychological values go out the window.

Sandor Marai

#5. What happens too often when we criticize someone is that we accompany it with strong, negative feelings. We criticize without ever mentioning how many other things we appreciate about our spouse.

Joel R. Beeke

#6. Some of us have little spiritual vitality because we fail to feed on Christ day by day. Over time, we become spiritually anorexic.

Joel R. Beeke

#7. The constant challenge in Christian theology is to preach the whole counsel of God, while not emphazing one point of doctrine in a way that denies another.

Joel R. Beeke

#8. Many forget that most of the greatest theologians God has given to the church were also pastors and teachers in the local church.

Joel R. Beeke

#9. A true friend is one with whom you can be playful and serious at the same time. The Bible teaches that God has appointed "a time to weep, and a time to laugh

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#10. the ultimate expression of truth appeared on this earth in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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#11. The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.

Joel R. Beeke

#12. He who possesses forgiveness is able to enjoy true happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

Joel Beeke

#14. In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

Frederick Forsyth

#15. Suspicion kills friendship.

Joel R. Beeke

#16. Give yourself-not just your time-to prayer. Remember that prayer is not an appendix to your life and your work, it is your life your real, spiritual life-and your work. Prayer is the thermometer of your soul.

Joel R. Beeke

#17. I was having thoughts and feelings I knew I shouldn't be having, and it was scaring the shit out of me.

Colleen Hoover

#18. There is good reason for supposing that the archetypes are the unconscious images of the instincts themselves, in other words, that they are patterns of instinctual behaviour.

C. G. Jung

#19. Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

Joel Beeke

#20. Thomas Goodwin said that "next to the Bible, he esteemed Dr. Ames, his Marrow of Divinity, as the best book in the world.

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#21. Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.

John Lennon

#22. There is no thought, no word, no act, and no area of human life that is not affected by sin.

Joel R. Beeke

#23. Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in its lies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#24. with their pens, and no less great with their swords - fearing God very much, and fearing men very little, - they were a generation of men who have never received from their country the honor that they deserve.

Joel R. Beeke

#25. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.

Samael Aun Weor

#26. Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.

Joel Beeke

#27. Christ did not come to earth simply to be our moral teacher. If that were His only mission, He could have come as He did in former times, as the Angel of the Lord, without our flesh and blood to encumber Him. Instead, He had to become like us so that He could raise us up to be like Him.

Joel R. Beeke

#28. A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith.

Joel Beeke

#29. The conferring and comparing of Scriptures is an excellent means of coming to an acquaintance with the mind and will of God in them. - JOHN OWEN

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#30. Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.

Ezra Taft Benson

#31. I'm too tired right now to come up with an appropriate response, so I'm going to pencil you in for later in the week. How's Thursday work for you? I can tell you to fuck off properly then.

Charlie Cochet

#32. In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.

Joel Beeke

#33. Preaching was uniquely honored by God "in that it serveth to collect the church and to accomplish the number of the elect" and also "it driveth away the wolves from the folds of the Lord.

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#34. No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry

Joel Beeke

#35. Christ will receive all who come to Him, but
Christ will not be sweet to them until sin is first bitter in them.

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#36. True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Richard Hamming

#37. It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Thomas Carlyle

#38. Now I know not anything that will contribute more to the furtherance of this good work than the bringing of family religion more into practice and reputation. Here the reformation must begin.

Joel R. Beeke

#39. . . . though if Fanshawe had not spoken in so unbecoming a way, Laurence would have liked to keep Carver out of it, as he knew the boy had a poor head for heights, which struck him as a grave impediment for an aviator.

Naomi Novik

#40. Prayer is thus a means ordained to receive what God has planned to bestow.[22]

Joel R. Beeke

#41. God, through the Law, His alien
work, brings man to despair and humility and to a recognition of his
need, and through the Gospel, His appropriate work, He gives man faith
and the knowledge of His forgiveness.

Joel R. Beeke