Sermon Quotes // Matthew 5:17-20

CSLewis

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

C.S. Lewis
(1898-1963; England)

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MLuther

“The Word of God [the Bible]is the greatest, most necessary, and
most important thing in Christendom.”

Martin Luther
(1483-1546; Germany)

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TKeller

“If I believe Jesus is the resurrected Son of God, I can’t follow all the ‘clean laws’ of diet and practice, and I can’t offer animal sacrifices. All that would be to deny the power of Christ’s death on the cross. And so those who really believe in Christ must follow some Old Testament texts and not others.”

Tim Keller
(1950-present; New York)

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JCalvin

“We owe to the Scripture the same reverence we owe to God”

“[In Scripture]God opens his most hallowed lips.”

John Calvin
(1509-1564; France)

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