Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015 Quotes

“But being in a church does not make one a real Christian any more than being in a library makes one a book.”
― Timothy Joseph Golden, Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015

“Things are not always what they seem. Repetition is not always bad, and unity is not always good.”
― Timothy Joseph Golden, Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015

“Do you have a hobby, something you enjoy? Have you ever noticed that the more you do it, the more you want to do it? This is the basic connection between passion and repetition: one is so passionate about something that doing it repeatedly is not boring but a joy.”
― Timothy Joseph Golden, Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015

“Kierkegaard made the point that Christianity is unscientific. That is, one does not relate to Christianity objectively. In one of his most influential books, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard fervently reminds us that one cannot relate to Christianity as one relates to science.”
― Timothy Joseph Golden, Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015

“the righteous suffer agony and the wicked have thrills. But everything is not what it seems, because this is a prejudgment state of affairs.”
― Timothy Joseph Golden, Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015

“for us if we commit to doing God’s will: there will be agony along the way, but the destination is victory!”
― Timothy Joseph Golden, Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015

“for the Christian, good acts are not the cover for improper motives but, instead, the fruit borne of a loving relationship with God.”
― Timothy Joseph Golden, Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015

“So far, we have emphasized Jeremiah’s faith, his courage, and his integrity in the midst of overwhelming difficulties. These are good things that we can take from a study of Jeremiah’s life.”
― Timothy Joseph Golden, Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015

“We live, as did Israel, in a cycle of creation and crisis. God creates through the power of His word, and we are presented with a choice to either obey or disobey. The word that God spoke at Creation is the same word as the word that God spoke through Jeremiah. When God physically created the heavens and the earth, He did so under hostile conditions of chaos and darkness. These hostile conditions have a moral and spiritual correlation in the life of ancient Israel. God uses His word, through Jeremiah, to “create” a new nation under hostile moral and spiritual conditions. God also takes us back to basics in a time of crisis, presenting us with a choice to serve Him that represents our opportunity to bring the crisis to an end. We can do so if we choose to serve Him rather than persist in the way of deception and disobedience.”
― Timothy Joseph Golden, Jeremiah Bible Book Shelf 4Q2015