"Christ has already conquered sin and death on the cross, so believers no longer belong to darkness; however, this victory continues to unfold within us until we are fully renewed. We live in a peculiar tension: we have already won, yet we are still fighting."
— Augustine
Source: City of God
Defeat, Renew, Win
Views: 14
"Spiritual life is not about moving from failure to success, but about moving from being accepted to being gradually transformed. We do not train to receive grace, but are shaped in grace."
— Richard Foster
Source: Spiritual Exercises and Praises
Spiritual, grace, life
Views: 23
"Justification addresses the issue of identity, while sanctification deals with the life process; the struggle is not because salvation is unreal, but because salvation has already begun to take effect."
— Martin Luther
Source: Lectures on Romans
Justification, Sanctification, Salvation
Views: 14
"Christians are fully justified in Christ and therefore righteous before God; but they are still sinners in themselves and need to repent daily. It is in this space between “already” and “not yet” that faith is exercised and grace is experienced."
— Martin Luther
Source: Lectures on Romans
Justification, righteous person, sinner, repentance
Views: 8
"When Jesus spoke of “the sheep in another pen,” he was not expanding the religious boundaries of the Jewish people, but rather proclaiming a disturbing fact: the Kingdom of God would enter into the community of those who thought they already knew God but had not yet truly known the Son; therefore, the target of missionary work was never just pagans, but also those who had religion but no gospel."
— George Aiden Rad
Source: New Testament Theology
Sheepfold, religion, pagans
Views: 12
"When you think you've just laid an unnamed brick, God may be putting it into a wall He designed Himself."
— Spurgeon
Source: Sermon Collection
design
Views: 8