In dealing with our old self-life, there will come a day when the Master must take us in hand and apply the keen cutting edge of His Word to our lives. It may be an unpleasant business for a time. No doubt we’ll struggle and kick about it. We may get a few cuts and wounds. But what a relief when it is all over. Oh, the pleasure of being set free from ourselves! What restoration!
— Phillip Keller (1920–1997), Autor
Related Bible passage: HEB.4.12
Topics: Growth & Character, Guilt & Forgiveness, The Bible & the Word of God
Occasions: For Reflection
Phillip Keller
W. Phillip Keller (1920–1997) war ein kanadischer Agrarwissenschaftler, Schäfer und evangelikaler Autor. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch Schriften wie „Psalm 23 – Aus der Sicht eines Hirten“, in denen er biblische Bildwelten anhand seiner praktischen Erfahrungen in der Tierhaltung erklärte. Für Bibelleser heute bieten seine Texte anschauliche seelsorgerliche Zugänge zu biblischen Metaphern, auch wenn sie populäre Laienliteratur und keine wissenschaftliche Exegese darstellen.
All quotes by Phillip Keller (12)
When we pray, the circumstances often remain the same, but we become different.
Oswald Chambers
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
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson
Being a Christian is not a 'do-it-yourself' affair.
Jerry Bridges
Christ accepts us as we are, but he does not leave us as we are.
Ingrid Trobisch
John Newton
Charles Haddon Spurgeon