Wilson Porte Jr. > Wilson's Quotes

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
― Victor Borge

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“É melhor viver em meio aos problemas com o Deus triúno do que viver na opulência doentia de sonhos gerados pelo pecado original.”
― Rousas John Rushdoony, Good Morning, Friends Vol. 2: A Collection of Weekly Radio Messages

“Estamos mais dispostos a ler sobre guerras e escândalos do que a ler a Bíblia: deleitamo-nos muito mais nos problemas.”
― Rousas John Rushdoony, Good Morning, Friends Vol. 2: A Collection of Weekly Radio Messages

“I pray the Lord to weaken today and remove tomorrow all that obstructs the soul’s contemplation.”
― Guigo II the Carthusian, The Ladder of Monks

“O God, good, sweet and gentle, tender friend and wise counselor, strong help! Foolish and reckless is the man who rejects you and expels such a humble and compassionate guest from his heart! Unhappy and damnable exchange: he drives out his Creator to welcome impure and perverse thoughts; he opens the dear retreat close to the Holy Spirit, recently perfumed with celestial joys, to low and sinful thoughts; he profanes with adulterous desires what remains of the Bridegroom’s visit. O dreadful impiety!”
― Guigo II the Carthusian, The Ladder of Monks

“From all of this we can conclude that reading without meditation is sterile, that meditation without reading is prone to making mistakes, that prayer without meditation is lukewarm, that meditation without prayer is fruitless, and that a prayer made with piety leads to contemplation; the latter, without prayer, is obtained only rarely, as by a miracle.”
― Guigo II, Lectio Divina: The Ladder of Paradise, an early guide to Lectio Divina [Translated]

“Perhaps time is an inconsistent healer, but God can purge even the most painful memories.”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Merchant's Daughter

“devemos ter sempre em mente que somos santos chamados a viver separados para Deus.”
― Jerry Bridges, Pecados intocáveis

“A ignorância é brutal, a arrogância é diabólica. Somente o orgulho, a principal de todas as iniquidades, pode nos fazer tratar os presentes como se fossem atributos legítimos de nossa natureza e, ao receber benefícios, roubar nosso Benfeitor de Sua devida glória.”
― Bernardo de Claraval, Sobre amar a Deus (Clássicos Breves Livro 1)

“To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

“They die for lack of discipline, and because of their great folly they are lost.”
― Michael D. Coogan, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

“When read in its Jewish context, Revelation ceases to be a literal end-time timetable and becomes what it was meant to be: a message of hope! It reassures the suffering church that, despite the apparent power of Rome (or any oppressive system), God reigns. Jesus, the slain Lamb, has already won the decisive victory. The imagery of judgment is not a prediction of a literal cataclysm but a dramatic way of affirming that the empires of this world will fall before God’s justice.”
― Eitan Bar, Revelation: A Jewish Perspective

“Já agora não é pelo que disseste que nós cremos; mas porque nós mesmos temos ouvido e sabemos que este é verdadeiramente o Salvador do mundo.”
― Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil, Bíblia do Obreiro - Almeida Revista e Atualizada: Concordância • Dicionário • Auxílios • Cerimônias

“Pru. And what is it that makes you so desirous to go to Mount Zion? Chr.g Why, there I hope to see him alive, that did hang dead on the cross; and there I hope to be rid of all those things, that to this day are in me an annoyance to me; there, theyh say, there is no death, and there I shall dwell with such company as I like best. For to tell you truth, I love him, because I was by him eased of my burden, and I am weary of my inward sickness: I would fain be where I shall die no more, and with the company that shall continually cry, Holy, Holy, Holy.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Spurgeon borrowed an illustration from Ambrose to compare Christ’s work as sanctifier of His people’s prayers to the work of a mother. Her little child returns from the woods with a bouquet of flowers that he plans to give to his father. The mother sees that all kinds of weeds are mixed with the flowers, so she quickly takes out the weeds and adds more flowers. Then the mother and child present the bouquet to the father. Likewise, Christ takes the weeds out of our prayers. He sanctifies our prayers by cleansing them with His blood and adding His own superior petitions. Then He presents this offering to the Father. Spurgeon writes: “If we could see one of our prayers after Christ Jesus has amended it, we should scarce know it again. He has such skill that even our good flowers grow fairer in his hand; we clumsily tie them into a bundle, but he arranges them into a [beautiful] bouquet.”3”
― Joel R. Beeke, Revelation