Worship Quotables

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• Found, Taken Hold of, Loved
  I sought the Lord and afterward I knewHe moved my soul to seek Him, seeking me;It was not I that found, O Savior trueNo, I was found of Thee. Thou didst reach forth Thy hand and mine enfold;I walked and sank not on the storm vexed sea,T’was not so much that I on Thee took […]
• Incarnation and Trinity
  With a glance back to Herbert’s two treasures [see yesterday’s Quotable], we see that the revelation of the incarnation and the Trinity, though hinted at for long ages, was not, in every sense, a gradual unveiling. No sooner is the lock of the incarnation undone, than the lock on the treasure chest of the Trinity springs […]
• Two Treasures
  Thou hast but two rare cabinets full of treasure,The Trinity, and Incarnation:Thou hast unlockt them both,And made them jewels to betrothThe work of thy creationUnto thy self in everlasting pleasure. —George Herbert (1593-1633), “The Temple”
• True Humanity
  In the humanity of Jesus Christ God has revealed what it is to be a true person. Hence a Christian anthropology can be constructed only from a Christology. —Bernard Ramm, An Evangelical Christology, 77