Quotes

Wanted to share the following quotes I heard this morning in church:

"Rather I fear that the cross, without ever being disowned, is constantly in danger of being dismissed from the central place it must enjoy, by relatively peripheral insights that take on far too much weight. Whenever the periphery is in danger of displacing the center, we are not far removed from idolatry." -D. A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry, 26.

"We are told men ought not to preach without preparation. Granted. But we add, men ought not to hear without preparation. Which, do you think, needs the most preparation, the sower or the ground? I would have the sower come with clean hands, but I would have the ground well-plowed and harrowed, well-turned over, and the clods broken before the seed comes in. It seems to me that there is more prepartation needed by the ground than by the sower, by the hearer than by the preacher." - Charles Spurgeon