Quotes by the Dozen
January 4, 2021 at 11:31 am | Posted in Quotes | 1 CommentTags: Biblical swimming, blog anniversary, blogging anniversary, quotes about swimming, swim quotes, the deep end, theological quotes
Yesterday was the 12th anniversary of The Deep End. The initial concept of the blog focused on the idea of “swimming,” so, while the majority of the posts were original content, I would occasionally find a theological quote which referenced swimming, bookmark it, and cite it in a post under a category of quotes. In honor of the occasion I have listed links to these below:
1. Spurgeon Liked To “S.W.I.M.,” Too (Luke 2:19)
2. John Piper Likes To “S.W.I.M.,” Too
3. Vance Havner Liked to “S.W.I.M.,” Too
4. Even Warren Wiersbe Likes to S.W.I.M. (The Gospel of John)
5. Pastor John Wilkerson is the Best “S.W.I.M.”er I Know *
6. My Wife Is a Super “S.W.I.M.”mer
7. Paul Washer Really S.W.I.M.s Hard
8. The Wesleys Were a “S.W.I.M.”ming Family
9. Jonathan Edwards Was a Heavenly “S.W.I.M.”mer
10. Douglas Wilson’s Turn to “S.W.I.M.”
11. All Presidents Should “S.W.I.M.” Like Woodrow Wilson (Romans 12:2)
12. R.C. Sproul “S.W.I.M.”s with Thanksgiving
13. C.S. Lewis Liked to S.W.I.M.
14. S.W.I.M. with Spurgeon
15. It’s Good to “S.W.I.M.” with Spurgeon
16. Spurgeon Would S.W.I.M. Deeper than Most (Deuteronomy 29:29)
17. Curtis Hutson Encouraged Young Men to S.W.I.M. (Numbers 13:23-33)
18. John Piper’s S.W.I.M. Prayer (Hebrews 2:1)
19. Pastor John Wilkerson S.W.I.M. Quote (Galatians 1:3-4)
20. Vance Havner Warns Us to S.W.I.M. with Care (Matthew 8:28-34)
21. Oswald Chambers Says You Can S.W.I.M. with Joy (Romans 8:37; II Corinthians 7:4)
22. My Blog Gets a Shout-Out from Todd Friel
23. R.C. Sproul Discusses the Times in which We S.W.I.M.
24. Spurgeon Exhorts You to S.W.I.M. NOW
25. Charles Spurgeon Liked to S.W.I.M. Poetically (Isaiah 41:18)
26. D.L. Moody S.W.I.M. Quote
27. Short S.W.I.M. with D.L. Moody
28. G. Campbell Morgan Wasn’t Too Proud to S.W.I.M. (Deuteronomy 8:3,16; Proverbs 16:18)
29. A Confident S.W.I.M. with John Flavel (Ephesians 4:14-16)
30. Thomas Watson Says S.W.I.M. by Faith (Deuteronomy 6:4; Galatians 4:6; Hebrews 11:1)
31. Matt Redman S.W.I.M. Quote (Psalm 59:16; Ephesians 2:1-5)
32. Spurgeon Encouraged us to S.W.I.M. Faithfully (Psalm 119:89-92)
33. Spurgeon Was Old Enough to S.W.I.M. (Psalm 92:13-15)
34. S.W.I.M. in Deep Waters with John Aughey (Psalm 69:1-3,13-16)
35. Edmund Spenser Could S.W.I.M. Lyrically (Luke 12:27-31; Proverbs 24:30-34)
36. Warren Webster Said It Is Important to S.W.I.M. with a Few Individuals (II Timothy 2:2)
37. Charles L. Quarles Pleads that We S.W.I.M. with Urgency (John 14:6; I Timothy 2:5; Acts 1:8)
38. Charles H. Spurgeon Needed Grace to S.W.I.M. (Ezekiel 47:9)
39. Douglas Wilson on Why We Must S.W.I.M. (Romans 1:16; Jude v. 23)
40. S.W.I.M. with Humility (Job 38:16)
41. John Piper: S.W.I.M. to be Married (Ephesians 5:31-33)
42. How Rosaria Butterfield Learned to S.W.I.M. (James 3:1; II Timothy 2:2)
43. Tim Challies: When You S.W.I.M. Downstream (I Corinthians 6:19-20; Micah 2:1; Psalm 36:1-4)
44. Douglas Wilson: S.W.I.M. to Obey (Romans 6:16; Joshua 24:22-24)
45. A.W. Tozer Challenged Us to S.W.I.M. in God the Father (Isaiah 40:28)
46. Douglas Wilson: S.W.I.M. to be Detestable (I Corinthians 6:9-11)
47. Pastor John Wilkerson: Don’t S.W.I.M. with Alcohol (Proverbs 20:1; 23:29-35; I Peter 5:7)
48. Douglas Wilson: S.W.I.M. to Get Out of Secularism (II Corinthians 6:17; Colossians 2:8)
49. Or in Which a Christian May S.W.I.M. (John 4:14; Jeremiah 23:29)
50. D.L. Moody: S.W.I.M. Deeper in Grace (II Corinthians 9:8)
51. Tyler Never Actually Learned How to S.W.I.M.
52. Sinclair Ferguson on a Difficult S.W.I.M. with Geerhardus Vos (Psalm 42:7)
53. S.W.I.M. Up through the Depths with Beowulf (Psalm 130:1; 77:16)
54. Augustine Wanted People to S.W.I.M. with the Monsters of the Deep (Genesis 1)
55. Thomas Watson: S.W.I.M. to Repent
56. Augustine on Those Who Will S.W.I.M. When Brought Ashore (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-42)
57. S.W.I.M. to Make Disciples
58. Christian Men Must S.W.I.M. (Job 23:12; Jeremiah 15:16; I Peter 2:2)
59. S.W.I.M. with the Fish (Romans 1:19-20)
60. Michael John Beasley: Equipped to S.W.I.M.
61. John Eliot Helped People to S.W.I.M. Plainly (Cotton Mather; Isaiah 40:11; John 21:15)
62. Douglas Wilson: S.W.I.M. in the Arts (Exodus 28:2; Psalm 29:2)
63. S.W.I.M. to Hope in Grace (Spurgeon; Romans 11:6; I Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:5)
64. Don’t S.W.I.M. Subjectively (Robert Golding; John 14:6; 17:17)
65. George Herbert Morrison Would Not Only S.W.I.M., but Drink, from Deep Waters (Psalm 42:7; Job 12:22; I Corinthians 2:10)
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S.W.I.M. Up through the Depths with Beowulf
March 31, 2020 at 12:29 pm | Posted in Quotes | 1 CommentTags: Beowulf, Biblical depths, Douglas Wilson, Douglas Wilson quotes, Psalm 130, Psalm 77, quotes about swimming, swim quotes
Soon that great swimmer, who struggled to victory,
Who bested demons in battle, breasted and kicked his way up.
The currents were cleared, the sea creature was gone,
From that watery waste, since the wandering ghoul
Left this life, lost to the world.
He then swam to the shore, that sailor-protector,
Solid in soul, in the spoil rejoicing,
Holding that head, and the hilt of the sword.
From Beowulf, a New Verse Rendering by Douglas Wilson
Twenty-Fifth Fitt, lines 1680-1689
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
Psalm 130:1
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
Psalm 77:16
Sinclair Ferguson on a Difficult S.W.I.M. with Geerhardus Vos
February 3, 2020 at 11:18 am | Posted in Quotes | 2 CommentsTags: Biblical swimming, deep theology, Geerhardus Vos, Psalm 42, quotes about swimming, Sinclair Ferguson, swim quotes
Geerhardus Vos’s original writings are demanding reading for theological students, never mind for those without academic training. That is partly a stylistic matter, but mostly it is matter of the weight and profundity of his thought. He takes most readers into rivers of biblical theology in which they are unaccustomed to swimming. For some, the depth of the water and the speed of the current prove to be too much.
Sinclair Ferguson, Geerhardus Vos Anthologized
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Psalm 42:7
D.L. Moody: S.W.I.M. Deeper in Grace
August 23, 2019 at 8:47 am | Posted in II Corinthians, Quotes | 4 CommentsTags: 2 Corinthians 9, Biblical grace, Biblical swimming, D.L. Moody, D.L. Moody quotes, grace, swimming quotes
There is plenty of grace. Many Christians, if they have grace enough to keep them from outward sin, seem to be perfectly satisfied; they do not press on to get fullness of grace, so as to be ready for God’s work. Many are satisfied to go into the stream of grace ankle deep, when God wants them to swim in it.
D.L. Moody, Soveregin Grace: Its Source, Its Nature, and Its Effects
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
II Corinthians 9:8
Or in Which a Christian May S.W.I.M.
January 25, 2019 at 11:04 am | Posted in Quotes | 1 CommentTags: Biblical swimming, Biblical water, Jeremiah 23, John 3, living water, swimming quotes, Wilhelmus a Brakel
Scripture is a brook from which a lamb may drink and an ocean in which an elephant can drown.
Wilhelmus á Brakel
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John 4:14
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Jeremiah 23:29
Douglas Wilson: S.W.I.M. to Get Out of Secularism
October 22, 2018 at 12:49 pm | Posted in II Corinthians, Quotes | 3 CommentsTags: 2 Corinthians 6, Biblical swimming, Colossians 2, Douglas Wilson, Douglas Wilson quotes, lifeguards, Rousseau, secularism, swim quotes, swimming quotes
We are finite, we are sinners, and we are lost. We need a word from God. We need gospel. We need Christ. And you can tell how bumfuzzled we all are in that the Christians are the first group that needs to learn how important Christ is. The evangelicals are the first group that needs to learn that the parliaments of earth need the evangel. We are not going to be able to get secularists out of their secularism until we get out of it. Somebody needs to get all the lifeguards off the bottom of the pool. That would be a good start.
Douglas Wilson
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
II Corinthians 6:17
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Colossians 2:8
Pastor John Wilkerson: Don’t S.W.I.M. with Alcohol
June 7, 2018 at 2:20 pm | Posted in Biblical Don'ts, Quotes | 1 CommentTags: 1 Peter 5, alcohol, Bible verses about alcohol, Biblical swimming, depression, Proverbs 20, Proverbs 23, sorrow, swim quotes, swimming quotes
People that drink alcohol to drown their sorrow need to understand that sorrow knows how to swim. Don’t drink alcohol. Jesus can take our sorrow.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 20:1
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Proverbs 23:29-35
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
I Peter 5:7
Douglas Wilson: S.W.I.M. to be Detestable
March 1, 2018 at 3:09 pm | Posted in I Corinthians, Quotes | 3 CommentsTags: 1 Corinthians 6, Christian hope, Douglas Wilson, Douglas Wilson quotes, homosexuality, hope in Jesus, LGBT, swimming quotes
There is real hope here for the sexual detestable, but it is not to be had for anyone who is indignant over the word detestable. Anyone who is offended when their [sic] sin is called detestable is still a drowning swimmer trying to fight off the lifeguard.
Douglas Wilson
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
I Corinthians 6:9-11
A.W. Tozer Challenged Us to S.W.I.M. in God the Father
September 21, 2017 at 12:30 pm | Posted in Isaiah, Quotes | 3 CommentsTags: A.W. Tozer, Eternity, God the Father, immutability, immutability of God, Isaiah 40, swim quotes, swimming quotes, Tozer quotes
What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is eternal, which means that He antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in Him and will end in Him. To it He pays no tribute and from it He suffers no change.
A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Isaiah 40:28
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