Chr Quotes

Men that had understanding of the times." 1 Chr. 12:32 I cannot doubt that this sentence, like every sentence in Scripture was written for our learning. These men of Issachar are set before us as a pattern to be imitated, and an example to be followed, for it is a most important thing to understand the times in which we live, and to understand what those times require. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times.

So we stood up there for a long while, watching the sunset and discussing how it was one of those things you could never truly capture in 8-bit, not with the simplistic definition of violet (CHR$(156)), orange (CHR$(129)), and yellow (CHR$(158)). There were too many other colors, thousands of colors. The hardware could never do justice to it.

The world needs pastors who are clothed with salvation(2 Chr 6:41).

Christ our righteousness gives us the wisdom to use the skills of others ( 2 Chr 2:7, 13).

But try not to let the “I” in iddiction speak too loudly, sweet Gomer girl. After all, “I” is smack-dab in the middle of lie. Instead, let your “I” be found where it should be—hidden in Chr-i-st!

CHR. True or right fear is discovered by three things:-- 1. By its rise; it is caused by saving convictions for sin. 2. It driveth the soul to lay fast hold of Christ for salvation. 3. It begetteth and continueth in the soul a great reverence of God, his Word, and ways, keeping it tender, and making it afraid to turn from them, to the right hand or to the left, to anything that may dishonour God, break its peace, grieve the Spirit, or cause the enemy to speak reproachfully.

CHR. Then I perceive it is not best to covet things that are now, but to wait for things to come. INTER. You say the truth: "For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." [2 Cor. 4:18] But though this be so, yet since things present and our fleshly appetite are such near neighbours one to another; and again, because things to come, and carnal sense, are such strangers one to another; therefore it is, that the first of these so suddenly fall into amity, and that distance is so continued between the second.

So it is that when on Friday, November 16, 1855, Denmark’s most venerable newspaper announced: “On the evening of Sunday, the eleventh of this month, after an illness of six weeks, Dr Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was taken from this earthly life, in his forty-third year, by a calm death, which hereby is sorrowfully announced on his own behalf of the rest of the family by his brother / P. Chr. Kierkegaard,” it did so with the full knowledge that enclosed in these simple lines raged a storm that threatened to spill out onto the quiet streets of Copenhagen and beyond. Or so they must have hoped.

{78} CHR. Then said Christian to the Interpreter, Expound this matter more fully to me. INTER. So he said, These two lads are figures: Passion, of the men of this world; and Patience, of the men of that which is to come; for as here thou seest, Passion will have all now this year, that is to say, in this world; so are the men of this world, they must have all their good things now, they cannot stay till next year, that is until the next world, for their portion of good. That proverb, 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush', is of more authority with them than are all the Divine testimonies of the good of the world to come. But as thou sawest that he had quickly lavished all away, and had presently left him nothing but rags; so will it be with all such men at the end of this world.

Vor sechshundert Jahren besaß die Pariser Medizinische Fakultät die kleinste Bibliothek der Welt. Sie bestand aus einem Titel. Und diese Schrift war das Werk eines Arabers. Es war so kostbar, daß noch Seine Allerchristliche Majestät König Ludwig XI. zwölf Mark in Silber und hundert Taler in Gold hinterlegen mußte, als er sich diesen Satz auslieh, damit seine Leibärzte jederzeit eine Kopie als Nachschlagwerk bei möglichen Attacken auf die Allerhöchste Gesundheit zu Rate zu ziehen vermöchten. Dieses Werk, das den ganzen Bestand der Bibliothek ausmachte, umfaßte aber auch die Fülle des gesamten medizinischen Wissens seit den frühesten Griechen - bis zum Jahre 925 n. Chr. Und da die folgenden vierhundert Jahre hierzulande so gut wie nichts dazu beigetragen hatten, wog dieser eine mächtige, strotzdende Gigant aus der Feder des Arabers tausendfach die bescheidenen, dünnbrüstigen Schriften sämtlicher klösterlichen Biblitotheken auf. Wie sehr die Pariser ihren Schatz zu würdigen wußten, beweißt das Denkmal, das sie dem Andenken seines Autors im Auditorium maximum ihrer Medizinschule gewidmet haben. Heute haben die Studenten der École de Médecine täglich sein Bild und das eines anderen Arabers vor Augen, wenn sie sich in dem großen Hörsaal am Boulevard St. Germain des Prés versammeln. Rhases nannte ihn das Abendland. Die Araber nannten ihn ar-Rasi. Sein eigentlicher Name war Abu Bekr Muhammed ben Sakerija.

Moreover, about 80 percent of today’s cheeses are made with rennet (an enzyme used to help turn milk into curds and whey) produced by genetically engineered bacteria developed by companies like Pfizer and Chr. Hansen.7 Before the development of the new bacteria in the 1990s, cheese makers often relied on rennet taken from the intestinal lining of baby calves.

1Chr. 16:30 Tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.   Psa. 93:1 Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.   Psa. 96:10 Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

CHR. I seek an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away [1 Pet. 1:4], and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there [Heb. 11:16], to be bestowed, at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it.

16. Because of David’s sin in calling for an unbiblical census (see 1Chr 21:1, also Exodus 30:11), the LORD determined to punish Israel. God gives David three options for Israel’s punishment:

{358} IGNOR. When do our thoughts of ourselves agree with the Word of God? CHR. When we pass the same judgment upon ourselves which the Word passes. To explain myself--the Word of God saith of persons in a natural condition, "There is none righteous, there is none that doeth good." [Rom. 3] It saith also, that "every imagination of the heart of man is only evil, and that continually." [Gen. 6:5] And again, "The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." [Rom. 8:21] Now then, when we think thus of ourselves, having sense thereof, then are our thoughts good ones, because according to the Word of God. IGNOR. I will never believe that my heart is thus bad.

CHR. Then I perceive it is not best to covet things that are now, but to wait for things to come. INTER. You say the truth: "For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." [2 Cor. 4:18]

Uit een boek leert men altijd wat, al was ’t alleen maar dat men beter een ander boek had kunnen kopen.

The bearing for praising God is Christ our righteousness(2 Chr 5:12)

The bearing for praising God is Christ our righteousness (2Chr 5:12)

The Hebrew terms torah, torat moshe (“ the Torah of Moses”), torat YHWH (“ the Torah of the Lord”), and torat haʾelohim (“ the Torah of God”), already in use in late biblical literature to describe what is later called the Pentateuch p. 1( e.g., 2 Chr 23.18; Ezra 7.6,10; Neh 8.1,18; Dan 9.11), offer a better clue to the nature and unity of these books.

I can be a sinn to tell an untimely truth.

34:6-7. merciful, gracious, slow to anger, kindness, faithfulness, bearing crime and offense and sin. This is possibly the most repeated and quoted formula in the Tanak (Num 14:18-19; Jon 4:2; Joel 2:13; Mic 7:18; Pss 86:15; 103:8; 145:8; 2 Chr 30:9; Neh 9:17,31). The Torah never says what the essence of God is, in contrast to the pagan gods. Baal is the storm wind, Dagon is grain, Shamash is the sun. But what is YHWH? This formula, expressed in the moment of the closest revelation any human has of God in the Bible, is the closest the Torah comes to describing the nature of God. Although humans are not to know what the essence is, they can know what are the marks of the divine personality: mercy, grace. In eight (or nine) different ways we are told of God's compassion. The last line of the formula ("though not making one innocent") conveys that this does not mean that one can just get away with anything; there is still justice. But the formula clearly places the weight on divine mercy over divine justice, and it never mentions divine anger. Those who speak of the "Old Testament God of wrath" focus disproportionately on the episodes of anger in the Bible and somehow lose this crucial passage and the hundreds of times that the divine mercy functions in the Hebrew Bible.

12:6. in a vision; in a dream. All prophetic experience in the Tanak is understood to be through visions and dreams—except Moses'. The fifteen books of the Hebrew Bible that are named for prophets either identify the prophets' experiences as visions or else leave the form of the experiences undescribed (Ezek 12:27; 40:2; Hos 12:11; Hab 2:2; Mic 3:6). Many begin by identifying the book's contents as the prophet's vision: "The vision of Isaiah" (Isa 1:1, cf. 2 Chr 32:32); "The vision of Obadiah" (Oba 1); "The book of the vision of Nahum" (Nah 1:1); "The words of Amos ... which he envisioned" (Amos 1:1); "The word of YHWH that came to Micah ... which he envisioned" (Mic 1:1); "The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet envisioned" (Hab 1:1).

At the point in Israel’s history when men, armed for battle, rallied around David at Hebron to take the kingdom from Saul, the chronicler makes an interesting observation about the qualifications of one particular group, the men of Issachar. He lists “men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do” (1 Chr 12:32). We need such people today, people who can understand our times, culturally and spiritually, if we want to be a vital part of what God is going to do next. God has taken me through a learning process over the last forty-plus years, as my wife and I have served him here in Boston, to help me understand how to work with him in his kingdom.

La quantité de critiques reçues concernant tout sujet est inversement proportionnelle à la valeur exacte du sujet

Ordnung zu halten, statt Unordnung aufzuräumen, ist das Grundprinzip der Weisheit. Eine Krankheit zu heilen, nachdem sie aufgetreten ist, ist wie einen Brunnen zu graben, wenn man Durst hat, oder Waffen zu schmieden, wenn der Krieg bereits ausgebrochen ist. – Nei Jing, 2. Jh. v. Chr.

Chr.: Apollyon, beware what you do, for I am in the King’s High-way, the way of Holiness, therefore take heed to yourself. Apol.: Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said, I am void of fear in this matter, prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal Den, that thou shalt go no further; here will I spill thy soul. And with that he threw a flaming Dart at his breast, but Christian had a Shield in his hand, with which he caught it, and so prevented the danger of that. Christian wounded in his understanding, faith, and conversation Then did Christian draw, for he saw ’twas time to bestir him: and Apollyon as fast made at him, throwing Darts as thick as Hail; by the which, notwithstanding all that Christian could do to avoid it, Apollyon wounded him in his head, his hand, and foot: This made Christian give a little back; Apollyon therefore followed his work amain, and Christian again took courage, and resisted as manfully as he could. This sore Combat lasted for above half a day, even till Christian was almost quite spent; for you must know that Christian, by reason of his wounds, must needs grow weaker and weaker. Apollyon casteth down to the ground Christian Christian’s victory over Apollyon Then Apollyon espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian, and wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful fall; and with that Christian’s Sword flew out of his hand. Then said Apollyon, I am sure of thee now: and with that he had almost pressed him to death, so that Christian began to despair of life: but as God would have it, while Apollyon was fetching of his last blow, thereby to make a full end of this good man, Christian nimbly stretched out his hand for his Sword, and caught it, saying, Rejoice not against me, O mine Enemy! when I fall I shall arise; and with that gave him a deadly thrust, which made him give back, as one that had received his mortal wound: Christian, perceiving that, made at him again, saying, Nay, in all these things we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us. And with that Apollyon spread forth his Dragon’s wings, and sped him away, that Christian for a season saw him no more.

I seek an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away [1 Pet. 1:4], and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there [Heb. 11:16], to be bestowed, at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it. Read it so, if you will, in my book. OBST. Tush! said Obstinate, away with your book; will you go back with us or no? CHR. No, not I, said the other, because I have laid my hand to the plough. [Luke 9:62] {22} OBST. Come, then, neighbour Pliable, let us turn again, and go home without him; there is a company of these crazy-headed coxcombs, that, when they take a fancy by the end, are wiser in their own eyes than seven men that can render a reason. [Prov. 26:16] PLI. Then said Pliable, Don't revile; if what the good Christian says is true, the things he looks after are better than ours: my heart inclines to go with my neighbour.

Karel de Grote (742 n.Chr. - 814 n.Chr.) en Keizer Karel de Vijfde (1500 - 1558) worden gehuldigd in het landsbelang van de oude vetes volgens historici. De hunebedden hebben er nog nooit zo mooi als tevoren bijgelegen!

Die circa um 1750 n. Chr. von A. G. Baumgarten geschaffene Disziplin der Ästhetik räumt dem schönen Denken einen eigenen Platz unter den Erkenntnisvermögen ein. Im Jahre 1758 n. Chr. erschien ein Werk Baumgartens, das als erstes den Titel „Aesthetica" trug (abgeleitet vom Griechischen „Aisthetike“ oder in griechischen Buchstaben „αισθητικη"). Ästhetisches Erkennen ist hier eine auf Sinnlichkeit angewiesene Erkenntnis (Lateinisch gesprochen eine „cognitio sensitiva"). Unter Sinnlichkeit der Wahrnehmung verstand man lange die mit den Sinnen wahrnehmbare Kunst. Die Ästhetik war somit eine Ästhetik der Kunst. Es galt den Sinn und die Bedeutung der Regeln der Kunst zu erklären und einleuchtend zu machen.1 Damit vergaßen die Menschen im Laufe der Zeit jedoch, daß Gott als Schöpfer der Welt auch oberster Künstler ist - die Schöpfung ist tatsächlich als Kunstwerk zu betrachten. Wenn man von Menschen als Kunstbeurteilern spricht, so muß das also richtig verstanden werden. Die Schöpfung als Ganzheit ist das Kunstwerk.