| Quotation 1 : | BELIEF
"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once." |
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| Quotation 2 : | BELIEF
"The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 3 : | BELIEF
"Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature. Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned i" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 4 : | BELIEF
"Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "rel" |
| Alister McGrath |
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| Quotation 5 : | BELIEF
"Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah's ark, but their belief system is taught as fact in government schools, while Biblical belief system is banned from government schools by law." |
| Ann Coulter |
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| Quotation 6 : | BELIEF
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." |
| Elton Trueblood |
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| Quotation 7 : | BELIEF
"Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 8 : | BELIEF
"To believe is to be strong. Doubt, cramps energy. Belief is power." |
| Frederick W. Robertson |
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| Quotation 9 : | BELIEF
"A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks." |
| George Macdonald |
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| Quotation 10 : | BELIEF
"If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 11 : | BELIEF
"Everything science has taught me - and continues to teach me - strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace." |
| Wernher Von Braun |
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| Quotation 12 : | BELIEF
"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 13 : | BELIEF
"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 14 : | BELIEF
"Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 15 : | BELIEF
"The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it." |
| Daniel Webster |
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| Quotation 16 : | BELIEF
"If I get well and write a book on Christianity, about which we have talked, we can attend more fully to this matter; but if I should be taken away suddenly, I do not wish to leave any duty of this kind unperformed. I want to leave somewhere a declaration" |
| Daniel Webster |
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| Quotation 17 : | BELIEF
"Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined to stamp out every vestige of belief in God, which they insist is not only "stupid" but" |
| Dave Hunt |
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| Quotation 18 : | BELIEF
"Heaven has no place for the erroneous belief that Christ died because we are worth it. Christ's death in our place had nothing to do with our worth but with the depths of our sin, the demands made by God's justice, and His eternal glory." |
| Dave Hunt |
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| Quotation 19 : | BELIEF
"The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best" |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 20 : | BELIEF
"Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware." |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 21 : | BELIEF
"Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks towar" |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 22 : | BELIEVERS
"Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true." |
| Ann Coulter |
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| Quotation 23 : | BELIEVERS
"Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet." |
| Matthew Henry |
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| Quotation 24 : | BELIEVERS
"The Bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong." |
| Rick Warren |
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| Quotation 25 : | BELIEVERS
"First John 3:16 shows that true love is climaxed by our being willing to lay down our lives for fellow believers." |
| Theodore Epp |
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| Quotation 26 : | BELIEVERS
"Believers simply do not realize how very significant their conscience is." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 27 : | BELIEVERS
"I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 28 : | BELIEVERS
"Soulish believers relish using high-sounding spectacular words and phrases." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 29 : | BELIEVERS
"God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to accomplish this task." |
| Theodore Epp |
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| Quotation 30 : | BELIEVERS
"All the energies generated in the soul including talent, gift, knowledge and wisdom, cannot enable believers to bear spiritual fruit." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 31 : | BELIEVERS
"Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 32 : | BELIEVERS
"The Lord made it very plain in the New Testament that believers cannot escape reaping the kind of harvest they sow. We cannot hide our sin; we will not get away with it. The secrets of the night are not hidden from God." |
| Theodore Epp |
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| Quotation 33 : | BELIEVERS
"But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth." |
| Tim LaHaye |
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| Quotation 34 : | BELIEVERS
"Fellowship means among other things that we are ready to receive of Christ from others. Other believers minister Christ to me, and I am ready to receive." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 35 : | BELIEVERS
"It is imperative that believers recognize a spirit exists within them, something extra to thought, knowledge and imagination of the mind, something beyond affection, sensation and pleasure of the emotion, something additional to desire, decision and actio" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 36 : | BELIEVERS
"This strife increases as the days go by. If the believers will proceed faithfully without giving in to despair, they will incur fiercer conflict until such time as they are delivered." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 37 : | BELIEVERS
"Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 38 : | BELIEVERS
"(speaking of soulish believers). These follow their desires and ideas and seek sensual pleasure and mental wisdom. While they may be spiritual in knowledge, in point of fact they are soulish." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 39 : | BELIEVERS
"Soulish believers are inordinately curious. For example, simply for the sake of knowing what the future holds do they try to satisfy their curiosity by studying thoroughly the prophecies of the Bible." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 40 : | BELIEVERS
"Unlike spiritual Christians, who seek not so much the explanation as the experience of being one with God, soulish believers look diligently for an understanding in their mind." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 41 : | BELIEVERS
"Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 42 : | BELIEVERS
"Carnal believers are moved easily. On one occasion they may be extremely excited an happy, on another occasion, very despondent and sad. In the happy moment they judge the world too small to contain them, and so they soar on wings to the heavens; but in t" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 43 : | BELIEVERS
"Carnal Christians crave works; yet amid many labors they are unable to maintain calm in their spirit. They cannot fulfill God's orders quietly as can the spiritual believers... their hearts are governed by outward matters. Being "distracted with much serv" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 44 : | BELIEVERS
"It varies with different personalities. Some will keep quiet. They have not yet attained freedom from natural shyness and fear. They may sit next to those talkative believers and criticize them in heart, but their silence does not make them any less souli" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 45 : | BELIEVERS
"Emotion is what believers mistake most for spirituality. Carnal Christians whose tendency is emotional in character habitually crave sensation in their lives. They desire to sense the presence of God in their hearts or their sensory organs; they yearn to" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 46 : | BELIEVERS
"Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 47 : | BELIEVERS
"The flesh is condemned forever before God and by God is sentenced to death. Are we not attempting the impossible if we desire not its death but rather seek to adorn the flesh with the Holy Spirit that it may be more powerful in service? What is our intent" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 48 : | BELIEVERS
"Satan frequently either unsettles the emotions of the physical bodies of spiritual believers, or he blocks the works of the spiritual ones, or he may disturb their environments." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 49 : | BELIEVERS
"Unless believers appreciate their own weakness, that is, know how incompetent they are in themselves to encounter the supernatural, they shall be deceived." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 50 : | BELIEVERS
"Since the enemy focuses particular attention on the spirit, how necessary for spiritual believers to keep their own spirit in its normal state and frequently exercise it as well. Their mind must be kept perfectly calm without any disturbance; their physic" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 51 : | BELIEVERS
"In addition to their willingness to yield to conscience's reproof, spiritual believers should also learn how to discern the accusation of the enemy." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 52 : | BELIEVERS
"Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of th" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 53 : | BELIEVERS
"Genuine spiritual work is aggressive towards Satan and travails in birth for believers. These in no wise can be termed joyous undertakings." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 54 : | BELIEVERS
"Why is the Christian's mental life so beset by evil spirits? This can be answered in one sentence: believers afford the evil spirits (or the devil) the opportunity to attack." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 55 : | BELIEVERS
"If our brain is full of prejudice towards the truth or towards the preacher, truth will not enter it nor will it extend to our life. No wonder some believers derive no help already have they decided what they would like to read or hear." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 56 : | BELIEVERS
"According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive" |
| Wayne Mack |
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| Quotation 57 : | BELIEVERS
"Neither the persecuting hand of men, nor the chastising hand of God, relaxed ancient singular saints. Believers resemble the moon, which emerges from her eclipse by keeping her motion, and ceases not to shine because the dogs bark at her. Shall we cease t" |
| William Secker |
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| Quotation 58 : | BELIEVERS
"To a true child of God, the invisible bond that unites all believers to Christ is far more tender, and lasting, and precious; and, as we come to recognize and realize that we are all dwelling in one sphere of life in Him, we learn to look on every believe" |
| A.T. Pierson |
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| Quotation 59 : | BELIEVERS
"By a matchless parable our Lord there taught us that all believers are branches of the Living Vine, and that, apart from Him we are nothing and can do nothing because we have in us no life." |
| A.T. Pierson |
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| Quotation 60 : | BELIEVERS
"The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 61 : | BELIEVERS
"What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 62 : | BELIEVERS
"Scripture plainly tells us of this mingling of tares and wheat--of mere professors among true believers. Yet misguided students have frequently applied to the children of God the warnings and exhortations meant only for the self-deceived or hypocritical." |
| C.I. Scofield |
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| Quotation 63 : | BELIEVERS
"The Scriptures teach that the happiness or blessedness of believers in a future life will be greater or less in proportion to the service of Christ in this life. Those who love little, do little; and those who do little, enjoy less." |
| Charles Hodge |
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| Quotation 64 : | BELIEVERS
"As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole." |
| Charles Hodge |
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| Quotation 65 : | BELIEVERS
"Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their ver" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 66 : | BELIEVERS
"Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude. But believers are not compared to bears or lions or other animals that wander alone. Those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so d" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 67 : | BELIEVERS
"God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-moment dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come to terms with their inadequacies, fears, and failures. Believers who have become discontent with 'surviving' an" |
| Charles Stanley |
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| Quotation 68 : | BELIEVERS
"The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God." |
| Charles Stanley |
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| Quotation 69 : | BELIEVERS
"Persecution is one way to drive believers away and create a carnal comfort zone." |
| John Hagee |
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| Quotation 70 : | BELIEVERS
"Believers who have most knowledge, are not therefore necessarily the most spiritual." |
| John Newton |
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| Quotation 71 : | BELIEVERS
"Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it." |
| Joni Eareckson Tada |
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| Quotation 72 : | BELIEVERS
"In vain I have searched the Bible, looking for examples of early believers whose lives were marked by rigidity, predictability, inhibition, dullness, and caution. Fortunately, grim, frowning, joyless saints in Scriptures are conspicuous by their absence." |
| Chuck Swindoll |
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| Quotation 73 : | BELIEVERS
"As believers, we are cut off from all thought of futures, from making plans in connection with this world. I shall not be ready for Christ to come if I am settled down in Sodom and trying to heap up its dross. Whatever duty the Lord has meant us to be doi" |
| G.V. Wigram |
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| Quotation 74 : | BELIEVERS
"Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ." |
| George Whitefield |
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| Quotation 75 : | BELIEVERS
"To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mista" |
| Hudson Taylor |
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| Quotation 76 : | BELIEVERS
"There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers." |
| J. Vernon McGee |
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| Quotation 77 : | BELIEVERS
"The one true Church is composed of all believers in the Lord Jesus. It is made up of all God's elect - of all converted men and women - of all true Christians. In whomever we can discern the election of God the Father, the sprinkling of the blood of God t" |
| J.C. Ryle |
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| Quotation 78 : | BELIEVERS
"What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little," |
| J.C. Ryle |
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| Quotation 79 : | BELIEVERS
"Few things are as dishonoring to the cause of Christ as Christians quarreling among themselves. Yet we expel people from our fellowship for adultery, while we tolerate discord between ourselves and other believers. We have failed to understand and obey th" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 80 : | BELIEVERS
"That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God; our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 81 : | BELIEVERS
"Many falsely suppose that the feelings, which God has implanted in us as natural, proceed only from a defect. Accordingly the perfecting of believers does not depend on their casting off all feelings, but on their yielding to them and controlling them, on" |
| John Calvin |
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| Quotation 82 : | BELIEVERS
"The only way it is possible to have one mind is to have the mind of God derived from the unity of the Spirit of God, a unity which comes only when believers find the will of God and give themselves unselfishly and unstintingly to its fulfillment." |
| John F. Walvoord |
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| Quotation 83 : | BELIEVERS
"Believers all belong to the same Lord, and are thus one with each other. Therefore anything that denies our oneness with each other denies our oneness with Him." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 84 : | BELIEVERS
"Discipline sometimes must be severe because the consequences of not disciplining are much worse. Sin is a spiritual malignancy and it will not long stay isolated. Unless removed it will spread its infection until the whole fellowship of believers is disea" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 85 : | BELIEVERS
"God saves believers by imputing to them the merit of Christ's perfect righteousness - not in any sense because of their own righteousness. God accepts believers in Christ. He declares them perfectly righteous because of Christ. Their sins have been impute" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 86 : | BELIEVERS
"How believers handle their money is inextricably related to the depth of their worship. Whether we put money in the offering plate or not, weekly worship should remind us of our continual stewardship of the possessions that Lord has entrusted to us. If we" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 87 : | BELIEVERS
"The joyless Christian reveals himself by having negative thoughts and talk about others, in a lack of concern for others welfare, and a failure to intercede on others behalf. Joyless believers are self-centered, selfish, proud, and often vengeful and thei" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 88 : | BELIEVERS
"The results of ignoring church discipline are catastrophic. Gross public sin is overlooked, ignored, and tolerated. The fellowship of believers deteriorates to the point where it's indistinguishable from the unbelieving world. God's people forfeit the cre" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 89 : | BELIEVERS
"When the New Testament talks about doubt, whether you're talking about the gospels or the epistles, it primarily focuses on believers. That's very important. It's as if you have to believe something before you can doubt it; you have to be committed to it" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 90 : | BELIEVERS
"You have been joined together with Christ... You bear His name. Are you ashamed to belong? Are you ashamed to bear that identification with other believers of like precious faith?... Shouldn't you be willing outwardly to identify with the visible, gathere" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 91 : | BELIEVERS
"There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment, but there is no such a word in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the way of God." |
| John Newton |
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| Quotation 92 : | BELIEVERS
"The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to [put to death] the indwelling power of sin." |
| John Owen |
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| Quotation 93 : | BELIEVERS
"I wonder how many believers today realize that faith is not merely believing that Christ died for our sins. Faith is also being confident that His way is better than sin. His will is more wise. His help is more sure. His promises more precious. And His re" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 94 : | BELIEVERS
"Self-love vitiates all relationships. Diotrephes (3 John 9-10) slandered (the Apostle) John, cold-shouldered the missionaries and excommunicated loyal believers-all because he loved himself and wanted to have pre-eminence. Personal vanity still lies at th" |
| John Stott |
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| Quotation 95 : | BELIEVERS
"Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?" |
| Martin Luther |
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| Quotation 96 : | BELIEVERS
"The Word, circumstances, and other believers - these can all be tools to show us our need and create opportunities to choose the pathway of brokenness. The Spirit of God is the arm that wields each of these instruments to bring us to a point of brokenness" |
| Nancy Leigh DeMoss |
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| Quotation 97 : | BELIEVERS
"Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfilling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God" |
| Neil T. Anderson |
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| Quotation 98 : | BELIEVERS
"One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and w" |
| R.C. Sproul |
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| Quotation 99 : | BELIEVERS
"Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12)." |
| R.C. Sproul |
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| Quotation 100 : | BELIEVERS
"The union of believers is grounded in the mystical union of Christ and His Church. The Bible speaks of a two-way transaction that occurs when a person is regenerated. Every converted person becomes "in Christ" at the same time Christ enters into the belie" |
| R.C. Sproul |
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| Quotation 101 : | BELIEVERS
"We are told that it is perfectly legitimate for believers to suffer grief. Our Lord Himself was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Though grief may reach to the roots of our souls, it must not result in bitterness. Grief is a legitimate emotion," |
| R.C. Sproul |
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| Quotation 102 : | BELIEVERS
"If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks o" |
| Richard Sibbes |
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| Quotation 103 : | BELIEVERS
"Scripture speaks about God working everything together "for the good" of those who love him (Rom. 8:28). But what is this "good?" It consists of believers being conformed (changed and remade) to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:29). Thus, all the experiences o" |
| Sinclair B. Ferguson |
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| Quotation 104 : | BELIEVERS
"All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up--you will never be the radical believer that you need to" |
| T.D. Jakes |
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| Quotation 105 : | FAITH
"God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you." |
| Joel Osteen |
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| Quotation 106 : | FAITH
"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition." |
| A.A. Hodge |
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| Quotation 107 : | FAITH
"Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 108 : | FAITH
"You must have faith in God." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 109 : | FAITH
"Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts." |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Quotation 110 : | FAITH
"When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance." |
| Joel Osteen |
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| Quotation 111 : | FAITH
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." |
| Khalil Gibran |
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| Quotation 112 : | FAITH
"Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy." |
| Joel Osteen |
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| Quotation 113 : | FAITH
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." |
| Mother Teresa |
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| Quotation 114 : | FAITH
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 115 : | FAITH
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 116 : | FAITH
"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired." |
| Martin Luther |
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| Quotation 117 : | FAITH
"Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 118 : | FAITH
"The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen." |
| Ralph Marston |
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| Quotation 119 : | FAITH
"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." |
| Emmanuel Teney |
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| Quotation 120 : | FAITH
"Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 121 : | FAITH
"God has His spiritual splints that He wants to put upon His children and keep them quiet and unmoved until they pass the first stage of faith." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 122 : | FAITH
"You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 123 : | FAITH
"We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can" |
| A.C. Dixon |
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| Quotation 124 : | FAITH
"There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashio" |
| A.J. Gossip |
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| Quotation 125 : | FAITH
"By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness." |
| A.T. Pierson |
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| Quotation 126 : | FAITH
"Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 127 : | FAITH
"Like the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and the miraculous birth of our Savior, the truth of election must be received with simple, unquestioning faith." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 128 : | FAITH
"Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible; endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 129 : | FAITH
"So long as we are occupied with any other object than God Himself, there will be neither rest for the heart nor peace for the mind. But when we receive all that enters our lives as from His hand, then, no matter what may be our circumstances or surroundin" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 130 : | FAITH
"Let God be true but every man a liar is the language of true faith." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 131 : | FAITH
"It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded by others as one of the called and elect of God. It is just in proportion as we add to our faith the other Christia" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 132 : | FAITH
"The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 133 : | FAITH
"The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 134 : | FAITH
"True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God has said it." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 135 : | FAITH
"Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not." |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 136 : | FAITH
"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your fa" |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 137 : | FAITH
"The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 138 : | FAITH
"Faith is the sight of the inward eye." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 139 : | FAITH
"There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 140 : | FAITH
"That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 141 : | FAITH
"It is not your idea, not your understanding, not your thinking, not your reasoning, not even your profession of faith, that here can quench the thirst. The home-sickness goes out after God Himself... it is not the name of God but God Himself whom your sou" |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 142 : | FAITH
"I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've" |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 143 : | FAITH
"There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God." |
| Alan Redpath |
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| Quotation 144 : | FAITH
"When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us." |
| Albert Barnes |
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| Quotation 145 : | FAITH
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 146 : | FAITH
"If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up fro" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 147 : | FAITH
"Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in H" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 148 : | FAITH
"So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We mak" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 149 : | FAITH
"Faith has in it the recognition of the certainty and the justice of a judgment that is coming down crashing on every human head; and then from the midst of these fears and sorrows and the tempest of that great darkness there rises up in the night of terro" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 150 : | FAITH
"If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and material good." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 151 : | FAITH
"Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 152 : | FAITH
"Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 153 : | FAITH
"The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company."" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 154 : | FAITH
"Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 155 : | HOPE
"You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope." |
| — Suzanne Collins |
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| Quotation 156 : | HOPE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one." |
| — John Lennon |
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| Quotation 157 : | HOPE
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present." |
| — Bil Keane |
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| Quotation 158 : | HOPE
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." |
| — Shel Silverstein |
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| Quotation 159 : | HOPE
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever" |
| — Nicholas Sparks |
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| Quotation 160 : | HOPE
"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." |
| — Paulo Coelho |
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| Quotation 161 : | HOPE
"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." |
| — Anne Frank |
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| Quotation 162 : | HOPE
"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always r" |
| — Anonymous (The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB)) |
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| Quotation 163 : | UNBELIEVERS
"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think." |
| Billy Graham |
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| Quotation 164 : | UNBELIEVERS
"The only Jesus that unbelievers ever see on this earth is the one reflected in those who already know Him. By mirroring Christ, we should be ready to turn any conversation or meeting with an unbeliever into a divine encounter." |
| David Jeremiah |
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| Quotation 165 : | UNBELIEVERS
"O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might sugge" |
| George Whitefield |
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| Quotation 166 : | UNBELIEVERS
"I fear that all too often Christians may be less humane and considerate than nonbelievers. We think we are standing on principle when in reality we may be only insisting on our opinion." |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 167 : | UNBELIEVERS
"We all know people, even unbelievers, who seem to be natural servants. They are always serving others one way or another. But God does not get the glory; they do. It is their reputation that is enhanced. But when we, natural servants or not, serve in depe" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 168 : | UNBELIEVERS
"Pragmatism seems predicated on the idea that artificial technique and human strategy are crucial to the church's mission. Many appear to believe that we can capture people for Christ and the church only if our programs are imaginative enough and our sermo" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 169 : | UNBELIEVERS
"Precisely because it is so powerful, the Bible has always had its enemies. Unbelievers challenge its credibility. Skeptics question its accuracy. Moral revisionists depreciate its precepts. Religious liberals dispute its supernatural character. Cultists t" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 170 : | UNBELIEVERS
"To some measure even unbelievers benefit from God's grace. Theologians call that "common grace" because it is common to all mankind. Common grace is God's continual care for all creation, providing for His creatures' needs. Through common grace God restra" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 171 : | UNBELIEVERS
"You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read, and your life is under scrutiny every day. What do others learn from you? Do they see an accurate picture of your God?" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 172 : | UNBELIEVERS
"The best duties of unbelievers are but white lies." |
| John Owen |
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| Quotation 173 : | UNBELIEVERS
"It is possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable." |
| Vance Havner |
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| Quotation 174 : | UNBELIEVERS
"The prayers that seek to glorify God, to honor Him, to further the work of His kingdom, to transform the hearts of nonbelievers, to demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ, and to reveal His majesty--those are the prayers that are most powerful." |
| Michael Youssef |
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| Quotation 175 : | UNBELIEVERS
"Spiritual food of a believer is nothing more nor less than accomplishing God's work. The kingdom of God suffers greatly at the hands of "spiritual believers" who busy themselves with prayer and Bible study and attend only to their spiritual need." |
| Watchman Nee |
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