Pt Forsyth Quotes

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 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.

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.

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.

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