The Message of Daniel Quotes

“Reason returns and so [Nebuchadnezzar] blesses the Most High. That is what sane people do -- they offer adoration to the God of heaven. Truly rational people talk like this; they confess the supremacy of the King of heaven.”
― Dale Ralph Davis, The Message of Daniel

“As noted before, the book of Daniel functions as a manual for the suffering church, as does its New Testament counterpart, the book of Revelation.”
― Dale Ralph Davis, The Message of Daniel

“Where should this leave us? In gratitude. True, we seldom if ever think of it – of the horror and pain the Lord’s servants endured in order to be the vehicles through whom his word is passed on to us in the Scriptures. We sit comfortably at our desks or tables with a companionable mug of coffee, read the prophets, and scarcely think of how Daniel was physically and emotionally wiped out or Ezekiel plunged into a mental morass of anguish and anger (Ezek. 3:14–15) – in short, of how much the word of God cost them.”
― Dale Ralph Davis, The Message of Daniel

“And the calculations have been made; the time has already been set for the last tyrant who would assault God’s kingdom and crush God’s people to be terminated. Somehow that injects a ground-floor assurance into the souls of God’s servants and makes it possible for them to walk on with a certain godly fearlessness.”
― Dale Ralph Davis, The Message of Daniel

“Giving insight and understanding (22b) is his privilege; ponder the word and discern the vision (23b) – that is our responsibility.”
― Dale Ralph Davis, The Message of Daniel

“In short, we are to never cut loose from this ʻmourning’ over sin as if it belongs to some elementary stage of Christian experience we leave behind. It is a proper preoccupation of our prayers.”
― Dale Ralph Davis, The Message of Daniel

“in the aftermath of the Nuremberg trials in 1946. After the executions of Nazi celebrities on 16 October, fourteen bodies, including those of Goering (who had ‘cheated’ by managing suicide), Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Frank, Streicher, Jodl and Seyss-Inquart, were delivered to a Munich crematorium. That same evening a container holding the amassed ashes was driven through the rain into the Bavarian countryside. After an hour’s drive the vehicle stopped and the ashes were poured into a muddy ditch.4 Five or six years before, these men could dominate and intimidate. That night a drizzle washed them away.”
― Dale Ralph Davis, The Message of Daniel

“it. He does not always shield you from all distresses and dangers, but it is in the loneliness, in the betrayal, in the loss that the Fourth Man comes and walks with you. He has the knack of both exposing you to, yet keeping you through, waters and rivers and fire (cf. Isa. 43:2–3) – and operating rooms and funeral parlours and an empty house. The Fourth Man can always find his people.”
― Dale Ralph Davis, The Message of Daniel