When buying books remember the following: 1. Buy only the best books since you will only read a few hundred in your lifetime. When possible seek a recommendation first. 2. Don’t excessively fret over the price, since the cost of a book is always small if it impacts your life for good. 3. Buy to preserve the truth for your family or some deserving friends or institution in the future, for they will inherit your library when you die. 4. Never let the reading of books replace the reading of the Bible. Instead of one or the other, do both. 5. Let a good book humble you and not make you proud, by seeking God in what you read.
— Jim Elliff (b. 1947), Pastor, Evangelist und christlicher Autor
Topics: Wisdom & Understanding, The Bible & the Word of God, Humility & Pride
Occasions: For Reflection
Jim Elliff
Jim Elliff (* 1947) ist ein US-amerikanischer Pastor, Evangelist und Autor aus dem reformatorisch-baptistischen Spektrum sowie Gründer des Dienstes Christian Communicators Worldwide. Er tritt mit Nachdruck für biblische Erweckung, verbindliche Gemeindezugehörigkeit und echte Bekehrung ein und wendet sich gegen einen oberflächlichen Entscheidungsglauben. Bibellesern begegnet er heute vor allem durch pointierte Impulse zu geistlicher Wachsamkeit, praktischer Nachfolge und reformatorischem Schriftverständnis.
A drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.
Blaise Pascal
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
The devil is a better theologian than any of us, and he is still a devil.
A.W. Tozer
Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.
Craig Groeschel
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Tim Keller
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
C.S. Lewis
Martin Luther