Round the Sphere Again

Quoting, quoting, quoting…

So here’s the way this game is played: I post an interesting quote I found somewhere in a recent blog post; you guess who is quoted. You’ll find the answers below the fold and a link to the original post so you can read the fuller context.

1. God Is A Jealous God

For one human being to be jealous of another is sinful: we are finite, and we are called to be stewards of what we have received, not jealous of others. But for God not to be jealous of his own sovereign glory and right would be a formidable failure: he would be disowning his own unique significance as God, implicitly conceding that his image-bearers have the right to independence.

2. True For Us, Too

[W]e admire a man who was firm in the faith, say four hundred years ago; the past ages are a sort of bear-pit or iron cage for him; but such a man to-day is a nuisance, and must be put down.

3. The Trouble With The Pharisees

The trouble with the Pharisees was that they were interested in details rather than principles, that they were interested in actions rather than in motives, and that they were interested in doing rather than being.

Answers

1. D. A. Carson (For the Love of God)
2. C. H. Spurgeon (Pyromaniacs)
3. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (The Upward Call)