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The Bible knows nothing of any contrast between truth and experience, head and heart, theology and practical living.
— Michael S. Horton
When you are trying to sell a product like therapeutic transformation, there can be no ambiguity, no sense of anxiety, tension, or struggle.
— Michael S. Horton
We rise up to God in pride, while God descends to us in humility.
— Michael S. Horton
When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.
— Michael S. Horton
The law tells us what to do; the gospel tells us what God has done for us in Christ.
— Michael S. Horton
Nothing comes close to the wisdom that God has displayed in the salvation of sinners.
— Michael S. Horton
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
— Michael Horton
God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, programs, and budgets.
— Michael S. Horton
In essence, don't wait for the host to move you to the children's table.
— Michael S. Horton
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
— Charles Horton Cooley
We are justified through faith in Christ, not through doctrinal precision.
— Michael S. Horton
The problem is that our children increasingly have not been given enough of the Christian faith even to apostatize from it properly.
— Michael S. Horton
A sentimentalized law proclaimed as gospel is disastrous.
— Michael S. Horton
This requires a lifetime of divine therapy: having our minds and hearts transformed by God's Word.
— Michael S. Horton
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
— Douglas Horton
Our righteousness" - never mind our sins! - "is like filthy rags" (Isa. 64:6 NKJV;
— Michael S. Horton
The fact that makes sin so utterly sinful is that it is ultimately against God.
— Michael S. Horton
Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.
— Peggy Toney Horton
If you make every sentence an exclamation or put every verb in 'bold,' then nothing stands out.
— Michael S. Horton
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
— Charles Horton Cooley
As Luther said, "God does not need our good works; our neighbor does.
— Michael S. Horton
Works are witnesses to, not the basis of, our right standing before God.
— Michael S. Horton
A religion of human goodness will never sustain a people in times of disaster and threat.
— Michael S. Horton
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
— Charles Horton Cooley
We're not building a kingdom, but receiving one.
— Michael S. Horton
Start with Christ (that is, the gospel) and you get sanctification in the bargain; begin with Christ and move on to something else, and you lose both.
— Michael S. Horton
It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.
— Jonathan Horton
We are not called to live the gospel but to believe the gospel and to follow the law in view of God's mercies.
— Michael S. Horton
It is still through the foolishness of preaching that God gives repentance and faith.
— Michael S. Horton
Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts - it's able to endure temptations - because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they're] not there.
— Michael S. Horton
Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:
— Michael S. Horton
If we are not explicitly and regularly taught out of it, we will always turn the message of God's rescue operation into a message of self-help.
— Michael S. Horton
If this is true, then neither the past nor the present is normative. It is the canon of Scripture that renders both relative and open to correction.
— Michael S. Horton
My mother's laughter was infectious - like a cheerful tune that lingers in your mind for the rest of the day.
— Peggy Toney Horton
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
— Douglas Horton
Outreach begins with a well-taught laity, stirred by the great truths of Scripture.
— Michael S. Horton
Our families, including us, do not need more quality time, but more quantity time.
— Michael S. Horton
It is nothing new when young people want churches to pander to them. What is new is the extent to which churches have obliged.
— Michael S. Horton
If ambition has been converted from a vice to a virtue, contentment has been transformed from a virtue into a vice.
— Michael S. Horton
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
— Horton Foote
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'
— Joan Rivers
God is truly to be found in the weak things of the world.
— Michael S. Horton
The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
— Douglas Horton
In a digital age, blogs are often more authoritative than sermons.
— Michael S. Horton
The pursuit of autonomous metaphysics is idolatry.
— Michael S. Horton
When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.
— Michael S. Horton
The gospel makes us extrospective, turning our gaze upward to God in faith and outward to our neighbor in love.
— Michael S. Horton
God loves 'stuff;' after all He made it
— Michael S. Horton
When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.
— Douglas Horton
Paul never encouraged Timothy to contemplate his personal "legacy.
— Michael S. Horton
Writing unlocks the heart and soul that we might be receptive to God's blessings.
— Peggy Toney Horton
The same word that is faith-producing and life-generating for some is for others an occasion to become more resolute in unbelief.
— Michael S. Horton
People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it's the stuff we CAN understand. It's cats that are complicated.
— John Horton Conway
Only when we start with the gospel - the most controversial point of Christian faith - are we ready to talk about who God is and how we know him.
— Michael S. Horton
What could be more exciting than an October day? It's your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.
— Peggy Toney Horton
Iciness enshrouds my body - a foretaste of death's chill.
— Peggy Toney Horton
The power of our activism, campaigns, movements, and strategies cannot forgive sins or raise the dead.
— Michael S. Horton
I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!
— Tony Horton
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
— Douglas Horton
If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.
— Michael Horton
The more we understand God's truth, the more we are struck by the mystery.
— Michael S. Horton
The Internet is the quarry from which younger generations craft their own selves and then advertise a desired persona on Facebook.
— Michael S. Horton
You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.
— Myles Horton
As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[
— Michael S. Horton
Christ's body is not a stage for my performance,
— Michael S. Horton
I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.
— Michael S. Horton
God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting.
— Michael Horton
You pursue excellence when you care about something other than your own excellence.
— Michael S. Horton
Even in death, my mother smiled - and she had every reason to do so, for I had become precisely what she hoped I would - her mirror image.
— Peggy Toney Horton
I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South,
— Horton Foote
To awake from death is to die in peace.
— Douglas Horton
I leave my parents here behindAnd all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
In every sacrament there are two things: a sign and a thing signified.
— Michael S. Horton
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An evil and adulterous [idolatrous] generation seeks after a sign (Matt. 12:39 NKJV),
— Michael S. Horton
A revival is not a miracle," Finney declared.
— Michael S. Horton
Often, this cry for more practical preaching is the call of the old Adam for more self-help.
— Michael S. Horton
Loving Neighbors Is Tougher Than Loving Causes
— Michael S. Horton
They went bowling and curling and regularly joined other couples for coffee and doughnuts at Tim Horton's.
— Alice Munro
God does not exist for us; we exist for God.
— Michael S. Horton
Bad law-preaching levels some of us; Osteen's omission of the law levels none of us; biblical preaching of the law levels all of us.
— Michael S. Horton
If you are always looking for an impact, a legacy, and success, you will not take the time to care for the things that matter.
— Michael S. Horton
Preaching is necessary not because it's a magic but because God has ordained it for the justification and sanctification of sinners.
— Michael S. Horton
The Next Big Thing is Christ's return. Until then, we live in hope that changes our ordinary lives here and now.
— Michael S. Horton
The Next Big Thing is not another Pentecost or another apostle or another political or social cause. It is Christ's return.
— Michael S. Horton
Saving faith is not the enemy of good works, but their only possible source.
— Michael S. Horton
I'll text my bounty hunter. But his nuts are so small, it's going be like Horton Hears a Who to find them.
— A. Wilding Wells
Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
— Douglas Horton
I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one.
— Peggy Toney Horton
Our choices are determined by our nature; we choose what we desire and we desire what is most consistent with our nature.
— Michael S. Horton
Surely it is not the business of the Church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ.
— Michael S. Horton
