Grace & Peace PGH

"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in you." —St. Augustine

"Christ went outside the city gate and suffered. We must go after him, and to him. This means we have to relinquish all the privileges of the camp and the city for his sake. We have to leave them behind and go to him. We must cling by faith to his sacrifice and through this to sanctification... We must own him under all that reproach and contempt that were heaped on him during suffering outside the gate." —John Owen

O come, O come, Immanuel, and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear.

"They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world." —John 17:16

"True dialogue is as far as possible from neutrality or indifference. Its basis is the shared conviction that there is truth to be known and that we must both bear witness to the truth given to us and also listen to the witness of others." —Lesslie Newbigin

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you." —John 15:16

"But hope for the Christian isn't just confidence in a certain glorious future. It's hope in present providence... The Christian hope is that God's purposes are so unassailable that a great thunderstorm of events can't drive them off course. Even when we're wave-tossed and lost at sea, Jesus remains the captain of the ship and the commander of the storm." —Elliot Clark

"Although the book Esther is known for the fact that God is never mentioned in the book... the author nonetheless expects his intended readers to see God at work at every turn in the story." —Gordon D. Fee & Douglas Stuart

"Rather than break faith with God, Daniel was willing to risk expulsion from the Royal Academy with the disgrace and danger that entailed. His priorities were firm." —Gleason L. Archer, Jr.

"For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity. The course of conduct which they follow has not been devised by any speculation or deliberation of inquisitive men; nor do they, like some, proclaim themselves the advocates of any merely human doctrines. But, inhabiting Greek as well as barbarian cities, according as the lot of each of them has determined and following the customs of the natives in respect to clothing, food, and the rest of their ordinary conduct, they display to us their wonderful and confessedly striking method of life." —The Epistle to Diognetus