Inspirational Quotes by Dick Brogden
“We have made Christmas about coming home and being comfortable. Jesus’ approach to Christmas was to leave home and be uncomfortable.”
“Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747–1813) was a Scottish jurist and historian. It is thought that he wrote in 1801: “The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back to bondage.”
“DO NOT THINK ME MAD. IT IS NOT TO MAKE MONEY THAT I BELIEVE A CHRISTIAN SHOULD LIVE. THE NOBLEST THING A MAN CAN DO IS JUST HUMBLY TO RECEIVE AND THEN GO AMONGST OTHERS AND GIVE.” —David Livingstone”
“Small repeated steps of obedience produce immunity to large steps of temptation.”
“The person who has no reputation to protect is the most free. What a luxury not to care what people think of us. “Praise and blame equally are nothing to him who is dead and buried with Christ,” Father Macarius said.”
“God does not care about disappointing our celebrations even when the party is for Him.”
“cleansing from sin is not to be confused with forgiveness. Forgiveness is instantaneous; cleansing requires a process.”
“Let us live a lifestyle of repentance, always conscious and sorry for our ugliness, always thankful and amazed at God’s generous mercy that beautifies the humble.”
“If you do not have joy in your suffering you are not suffering God’s way. You are just miserable.”
“Arrogance and insecurity cause us to blabber, while humility and security cause us to be comfortable in silence.”
“Being wrong-right not only destroys others, it ends up suicidal, for when the light that is in us is darkness, how great is that darkness (Matt. 6:23). What is most sobering about self-righteousness is that it is a double slayer. It attacks another at injury to itself.”
“The troubling and awe-inducing aspects of God diminish neither His goodness nor His greatness. Because God is unapproachable (wrapped in impenetrable light), the incarnation is stronger, not weaker, and pure … not sullied. Because God is just, exclusive, holy, righteous, and holds impossible standards, His embrace and forgiveness is deeper, wider, fuller, and more marvelous … not less. Because God is love, His hatred for sin is just and righteous … not hypocritical or twisted.”
“When we are insulted or maligned, vindication and satisfaction come from sheltering in the presence of Jesus and being conformed to His image. The time we most want to defend ourselves is the time we should intentionally retreat to the presence of Jesus, shut our mouths, and let Him use the uncomfortable and embarrassing circumstances to stamp His image deeply upon us.”
“I consider the most terrifying verse in all Scripture to be Matthew 12:36: “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.” Most of our idle words criticize others while hypocritically praising (directly or indirectly) ourselves. Even if there is some basis for criticism, this is wrong-rightness and it is most foolish. When we take credit for the gifts and favors of God (another face of hypocrisy), when we self-righteously destroy others, we ingest worms into our spirits (Acts 12:23) and doom ourselves to a painful and ignoble end. Hypocrisy (wrong-rightness) kills us from the inside out.”
“Our countries cannot protect us from the advance of Islam. Homeschooling does not protect us from worldliness. The church bubble does not protect us from humanism. If we are not proactive, we will perish.”
“Dying to self gives us an appetizer of the glorious joy that will be ours forever when we awake from this earthly slumber. It is a preview, if you will, of the joy set before us.”
“We sing back to Job and in doing so, sing to ourselves. We sing not from pride but from mutual relief, for God has introduced an unexpected Deliverer into our hopeless case. We were alone in the dock, the gavel descending to pound out our deserved sentence of death, when the courtroom doors burst open and an unexpected Savior exploded into the room. The watching cosmos fell quiet, and we who were guilty fell on our knees and whispered, “For my pardon this my plea—nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
“Finishing Well Requires Mountains of Grace. The mountainous problems that surround us are made flat in the end by God’s grace (4: 7). Our salvation is by grace through faith, as is our completion. Only God’s grace gets us through this fallen world pure. Grace never denies or circumvents our efforts and intentional discipline, but neither can we rely on our efforts to get us to the end sin-free. Those who finish well have not had more luck or been more determined than those who stumbled at the end. They have simply been graced by God. When we breathe our last breath, we should use it to shout “Grace!”
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I was born in rural East Africa, just north of Lake Victoria. My dad and mom are my heroes (still missionaries on the field, they went out in 1966) and taught me to love Jesus and love his passions in the earth. I married my best friend, Jennifer, and she is stronger and wiser than anyone will ever know. I have two joys in life—my sons, Luke and Zack. Together we have treasured Jesus among Muslims since 1992, first in Mauritania, then Kenya, then Sudan for the past 15 years. The next treasure stop is Cairo, Egypt.Jennifer and I love to pioneer, we love working among unreached Muslim people, we love taking the gospel where it has not yet gone. The picture Jenn has had for our lives is that of a team on an obstacle course. We run to the wall first and get down on our hands and knees so others can spring over the wall. We do believe the great opportunity of our age is to engage the world of Islam with our magnificent, divine Jesus. We do consider the Arab world to be the heart of Islam. As Jesus is enthroned in the Arab world, we will be that much closer to every tribe, tongue, and people in worship, that much closer to Jesus coming back to take us all home. Whatever that costs us, Jesus is worth it.