Bruce A. Demarest > Quotes

“Evangelical spirituality focuses, subjectively, on the “with-God” life in all of its lived dimensions. It concerns the manner by which we live in communion with Christ in response to the Spirit in pursuit of holiness resulting in service to others.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, Four Views on Christian Spirituality

“Patience involves the capacity to bear with annoyances and to endure delays to our timetable.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, The Cross and Salvation

“The saints should never be dismayed, Nor sink in hopeless fear; For when they least expect His aid, The Savior will appear.
Wait”
― Bruce Demarest, Seasons of the Soul: Stages of Spiritual Development

“J.C. Ryle faithfully observed that “A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as his peace.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, The Cross and Salvation

“Barna research demonstrates that only 52 percent of Christians are making some effort to grow spiritually, and many of these are inconsistent and achieve limited results.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, Four Views on Christian Spirituality

“As a young person I was taught that becoming a Christian meant
that I had arrived. But trusting Christ as Savior is only the beginning of a lifelong process of spiritual transformation and training in discipleship. We begin the journey as spiritual infants, but God intends that we advance to spiritual adulthood.”
― Bruce Demarest, Seasons of the Soul: Stages of Spiritual Development

“According to the Pew Foundation, one-quarter of Americans dabble in astrology.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, Four Views on Christian Spirituality

“G C Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.”
― Bruce Demarest

“Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of "the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.”
― Bruce Demarest

“The human will does not attain grace through freedom, but rather freedom through grace.”
― Bruce Demarest, The Cross and Salvation

“When it comes to religion, the USA is now land of the freelancers” or “a greenhouse for spiritual sprouts.”15”
― Bruce A. Demarest, Four Views on Christian Spirituality

“Pastor and writer A.W. Tozer observed that “for millions of Christians … God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, Four Views on Christian Spirituality

“He wrote, “The spiritual security of believers . . . depends primarily not on their hold on God but on God’s hold of them.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, The Cross and Salvation

“In a recent national survey, 24 percent of respondents identified themselves as “spiritual but not religious,” meaning that nearly one-quarter of citizens surveyed have “combined diverse beliefs and practices into a personal faith that fits no standard definition.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, Four Views on Christian Spirituality