There are two “cities” in which men on earth may live. They must in fact live in one or the other. —Roderick Campbell, Israel and the New Covenant (1954) By night and alone Nehemiah surveyed the broken walls of Jerusalem. He saw that his task was...
Ora et labora. —a Benedictine proverb No, my friend, there is no contradiction between the sovereign decrees of God and fervent, believing prayer. —John Reisinger, The Sovereignty of God and Prayer (2002) The Moment Of Crisis It was a calculated...
Ezra was a model reformer in that what he taught he had first lived, and what he lived he had first made sure of in the Scriptures. —Derek Kidner, Ezra & Nehemiah (1979) “Come, the New Jerusalem!” The true story of freedom is the history of...
The clouds ye so much dread / Are big with mercy. . . —William Cowper, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way” (1774) Men are always prone to put religion off with scraps and leavings, and serve God with what costs them nothing. —T. V. Moore, Commentary...
In a transatlantic airliner, as the navigator plots the plane’s projected course, at a certain point he will make a neat dot and draw a tiny circle around it, labeling it PNR. —Marshall & Manuel, The Light and the Glory (1980) History...
See the nations turn their swords into plowshares —Michael Jackson, “Heal the World” (1991) They will walk behind the ploughshare, They will put away the sword. —Les Misérable, “Finale” (1980) To End All Wars In the United Nations garden there is...
The mother is central to the picture of blessing and prosperity. —Nancy Wilson, The Fruit of Her Hands (2000) Great cities are commonly called mothers…. —John Wesley on 2 Samuel 20:19 A Mother in Israel Deborah called herself “a mother in Israel”...
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