Inspirational Quotes by David F. Wells

“Authenticity, theologically speaking, is not simply about being true to ourselves or about being satisfied with ourselves. It is about being true to who we are in Christ.”

“The present age is in the sunset of dissolution; the age to come is the dawn whose light bathes life, banishes its shadows, and illumines its meaning because this age is moving the people of God to that time when everything has become subject to Christ and he has rendered it all up to the Father.”

“Those who attend churches are now like any other customers you might meet in the mall. Displease them in any way and they will take their business elsewhere. That is the fear that lurks in many a church leader's soul because they know that is how the marketplace works.”

“No está ante nosotros para ser utilizado. No está ahí suplicándonos poder entrar en nuestro mundo interno y satisfacer nuestras necesidades terapéuticas. Estamos ante él para oír su mandato. Y su mandamiento es que seamos santos, lo cual es algo mucho más grande que ser felices.”

“Cristo, como Adán, también nació sin pecado. Pero, a diferencia de Adán, aprendió a caminar ante su Padre con gozo y completa obediencia.”

“There are a surprising number who get their spiritual uplift week by week only from the comfort of their own living rooms or from their computers. They never go to church. Well, they “go” to church but do so in their own way.”

“sobre todos los enemigos cuya obra y carácter son oscuros. Él espera ahora hasta que todos estos enemigos sean puestos bajo sus pies. Entonces, su conquista en la cruz resonará por todo el cosmos y esa “edad”, que para nosotros aún está por llegar, vendrá de hecho con todo su esplendor.”

“In the one, we find in ourselves the resources to make the journey to God. In the other, there is no journey except God provide its means and take us by the hand to its end. The one, then, is all about self-assertion albeit clothed and hidden in noble religious language. The other is about grace, and that grace can work only as the self is not simply mortified, or disciplined, but dies. In one, there is self-seeking; in the other, there is self-abnegation.”

“La santidad de Dios y su amor se encuentran, siempre y en todos sitios, inseparables, porque pertenecen igualmente al mismo carácter absolutamente perfecto y glorioso.”

“Sin el conocimiento de Dios por parte de quienes adoran, sin una fe activa, sin reverencia, sin gratitud en el adorador, incluso las mejores formas de adoración simplemente caen por su propio peso.”

“Podemos, y deberíamos, distinguir entre la justificación y la santificación. Pero no separar la una de la otra. Que haya quienes afirman haber nacido de nuevo y al mismo tiempo no muestran evidencia de su renovación interior, o de haber sido desarraigados de la vida pasada y reubicados en una existencia enteramente diferente, es una farsa y un escándalo.”

“Today, we think that each person must find his or her own way of being spiritual, something that is comfortable to that person; each spirituality is particular to each person.”

“There come those times in a nation’s life, Os Guinness has written, when its people rise up against the founding principles of their own nation. This is one of those times in America. It is far more dangerous than any terrorist attack. It is, in fact, “a free people’s suicide,” as he puts it in the title of his book. Why? Because what holds the republic together has never been simply the Constitution and our laws. The law is an exceedingly blunt instrument when it comes to controlling human behavior. There are many things that are unethical that are not illegal. Most lying, for example, is not illegal but it is always unethical. Our criminal and civil laws can control only so much of our behavior. It is virtue that does the rest. And that is precisely what is being eroded in this self-oriented, self-consumed culture.”

“We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth.”

“That is why we must come back to our first principles. And the most basic of these is the fact that God is there and that he is objective to us. He is not there to conform to us; we must conform to him. He summons us from outside of ourselves to know him. We do not go inside of ourselves to find him. We are summoned to know him only on his terms. He is not known on our terms. This summons is heard in and through his Word. It is not heard through our intuitions.”

“[Christianity today] is about everything except truth. And yet this truth, personally embodied in Christ, gives us a place to stand in order to deal with the complexities of life, such as broken relations, teenage rebellion, and job insecurities.”

“Nosotros, por tanto, vemos en Cristo todo lo que Adán debió ser, pero que nunca fue. Cristo recogió la urdimbre de humanidad que Adán había hecho caer y la llevó a su plenitud completa.”

“In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.”

“Una vez, equivocadamente pensamos que nuestra propia cautividad era una libertad. Igual y erróneamente, también consideramos el servir a Cristo como una pérdida. Pero la verdad llegó a resultar exactamente lo contrario de lo que habíamos pensado antes.”

“What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?”