P T Forsyth Quotes

there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation." [p.28]

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action.

It is the politicians who dream their dreams - sometimes dangerous dreams, (...). A top intelligence officer has to be harder-headed than the toughest businessman. One has to trim to the reality, (...) (Sir Nigel Irvine, p. 428-429).

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow ... He began by being the world's healer. But what broke him was its sin.

The only preaching which is up to date for every time is the preaching of this eternity, which is opened to us in the Bible alone – the eternal of holy love, grace and redemption, the eternal and immutable morality of saving grace for our indelible sin.

P. T. Forsyth, the English Congregationalist, wrote in The Cruciality of the Cross (1909): Christ is to us just what his cross is. All that Christ was in heaven or on earth was put into what he did there...Christ, I repeat, is to us just what his cross is. You do not understand Christ till you understand his cross. (pp.44–45)

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Ivan Illich, in an interview, said: “You know, there is an American myth that denies suffering and the sense of pain. It acts as if they should not be, and hence it devalues the experience of suffering. But this myth denies our encounter with reality.”1 The gospel offers a different view of suffering: in suffering we enter the depths; we are at the heart of things; we are near to where Christ was on the cross. P. T. Forsyth wrote: The depth is simply the height inverted, as sin is the index of moral grandeur. The cry is not only truly human, but divine as well. God is deeper than the deepest depth in man. He is holier than our deepest sin is deep. There is no depth so deep to us as when God reveals his holiness in dealing with our sin . . . . [And so] think more of the depth of God than the depth of your cry. The worst thing that can happen to a man is to have no God to cry to out of the depth.2

P.T. Forsyth says that `the best theology is compressed prayer'.

There were a few books he always recommended, such as Christian in Complete Armor by Gurnall, Looking unto Jesus by Isaac Ambrose, Fair Sunshine by Jock Purves, The Soul of Prayer by P. T. Forsyth and The Hidden Life of Prayer by D. M. McIntyre. These headed up his recommended reading list, along with The Diary of David Brainerd.

While I am thinking of it, you must get the book, The Justification of God, by P. T. Forsyth. Spurgeon said that Forsyth was born a hundred years before his time. Read him; he may shock you at times, but he has a message for this day.

Richards in the eye and shook her head

It is a dangerous thing to do,” wrote P. T. Forsyth, “to work at your own holiness.”367 Surely, as Luther saw, the last and most subtly hidden bastion of our sinful self-centeredness is self-centered religion. As Paul makes clear in Philippians 3, the aim of the “perfect” is not their own perfection, but that they may know Christ. He is the goal. Christian “perfection” is only a by-product.

When there is no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth.” Dawn of the Dead

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything” – Albert Einstein

Thus prayer is, for us, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. But does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon? When we look up from under it it is a load, but those who look down to it from God's side see it as a blessing. It is like great wings--they increase the weight but also the flight. If we have no duty to do God has shut Himself from us. To be denied duty is to be denied God. No cross no Christ. "When pain ends gain ends too.

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WAFs, along with other emotional pain and hurt, are not your enemies. They are your teachers. Think about that for a moment. Without experiencing disappointment, you’d never learn patience. Without the hurt and frustration you receive from others, you’d never learn kindness and compassion. Without exposure to new information, you’d never learn anything new. Without fear, you’d never learn courage and how to be kind to yourself. Even getting sick once in a while has an important purpose—strengthening your immune system and helping you to appreciate good health.

P. T. Forsyth wrote: The depth is simply the height inverted, as sin is the index of moral grandeur. The cry is not only truly human, but divine as well. God is deeper than the deepest depth in man. He is holier than our deepest sin is deep. There is no depth so deep to us as when God reveals his holiness in dealing with our sin . . . . [And so] think more of the depth of God than the depth of your cry. The worst thing that can happen to a man is to have no God to cry to out of the depth.

It came without warning from the direction of the sun, thereby alluding the ability of astronomers to spot it in advance,

Mr. Cohn looked askance at the Captain, received a nod, and replied, “I can vouch for my security team, and I know the Captain can count on the loyalty of a majority of the crew,

P. T. Forsyth’s book Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind. These are its opening words: ‘It is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture to say that with its preaching Christianity stands or falls.