| Quotation 1 : | DUALITY
"Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think ma" |
| Wislawa Szymborska |
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| Quotation 2 : | DUALITY
"A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find." |
| Bill Skarsgard |
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| Quotation 3 : | DUALITY
"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite." |
| Hans Urs von Balthasar |
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| Quotation 4 : | DUALITY
"The biblical union of two people into one flesh did not involve the annihilation of personal identity. The unity of marriage is not to be monistic but a unity in duality." |
| R.C. Sproul |
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| Quotation 5 : | DUALITY
"Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become." |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 6 : | DUALITY
"If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In" |
| Anthon St. Maarten |
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| Quotation 7 : | DUALITY
"My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ;
'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call." |
| Rumi |
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| Quotation 8 : | DUALITY
"In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life." |
| Robert Anton Wilson |
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| Quotation 9 : | DUALITY
"Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together." |
| Robin Craig Clark |
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| Quotation 10 : | DUALITY
"I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both." |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Quotation 11 : | DUALITY
"Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict." |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Quotation 12 : | DUALITY
"The direction of life is from duality to unity." |
| Deepak Chopra |
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| Quotation 13 : | DUALITY
"That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole." |
| Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 14 : | DUALITY
"By creating a new mythos - that is, a change in the way we perceive reality, the way we see ourselves, and the ways we behave - la mestiza creates a new consciousness. The work of mestiza consciousness is to break down the subject/object duality that keep" |
| Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
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| Quotation 15 : | DUALITY
"One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light." |
| Neal Shusterman |
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| Quotation 16 : | DUALITY
"There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, o" |
| Jiddu Krishnamurti |
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| Quotation 17 : | DUALITY
"There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything." |
| Rhonda Byrne |
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| Quotation 18 : | DUALITY
"I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination." |
| Jaeda DeWalt |
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| Quotation 19 : | DUALITY
"So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself." |
| Eckhart Tolle |
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| Quotation 20 : | DUALITY
"Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life." |
| Stephen Hawking |
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| Quotation 21 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 22 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 23 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 24 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"Yes, to Jesus we come, for with richness of figurative language, wealth of ethical insight, and depth of redemptive-historical grasp we are brought by the Scriptures to Jesus. God spoke in diverse manners has spoken in a Son. What focus in brought to our" |
| Edmund Clowney |
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| Quotation 25 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"The conscience...is not infallible. Nor is it a source of revelation about right and wrong. Its role is not to teach you moral and ethical ideals, but to hold you accountable to the highest standards of right and wrong you know." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 26 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and conc" |
| John Stott |
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| Quotation 27 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition." |
| Samuel Chadwick |
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| Quotation 28 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." |
| — Elie Wiesel |
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| Quotation 29 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." |
| — Aristotle |
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| Quotation 30 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." |
| — Aristotle |
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| Quotation 31 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." |
| — Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 32 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'." |
| — Audrey Hepburn |
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| Quotation 33 : | ETHICAL LIFE
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." |
| — Dalai Lama XIV |
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| Quotation 34 : | FORGIVENESS
"A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." |
| Hannah More |
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| Quotation 35 : | FORGIVENESS
"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness." |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Quotation 36 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart." |
| Corrie Ten Boom |
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| Quotation 37 : | FORGIVENESS
"The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder." |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 38 : | FORGIVENESS
"Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness." |
| Dave Hunt |
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| Quotation 39 : | FORGIVENESS
"I wish, brothers and sisters, that we could all imitate "the pearl oyster"--A hurtful particle intrudes itself into its shell, and this vexes and grieves it. It cannot reject the evil, but what does it do but "cover" it with a precious substance extracted" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 40 : | FORGIVENESS
"I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same root word as "humility"? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even" |
| Chip Ingram |
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| Quotation 41 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, "I will forgive, but not forget." It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ground, so you can grasp it the minute you want it." |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 42 : | FORGIVENESS
"Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace wi" |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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| Quotation 43 : | FORGIVENESS
"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjack's wares. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution" |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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| Quotation 44 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care." |
| Erwin Lutzer |
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| Quotation 45 : | FORGIVENESS
"To win the war against fear, we must know the true God as He is revealed in the Bible. He works to give us lasting peace. He receives joy, not from condemning us but in rescuing us from the devil. Yes, the Lord will bring conviction to our hearts concerni" |
| Francis Frangipane |
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| Quotation 46 : | FORGIVENESS
"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness." |
| Frederick W. Robertson |
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| Quotation 47 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life." |
| George Macdonald |
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| Quotation 48 : | FORGIVENESS
"There's no sight like seeing the light from Calvary kiss a human face as it fills the heart with the assurance of Divine forgiveness." |
| Gipsy Smith |
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| Quotation 49 : | FORGIVENESS
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Quotation 50 : | FORGIVENESS
"The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and" |
| Horatius Bonar |
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| Quotation 51 : | FORGIVENESS
"In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God's judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our s" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 52 : | FORGIVENESS
"After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 53 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." |
| Mark Twain |
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| Quotation 54 : | FORGIVENESS
"God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 55 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 56 : | FORGIVENESS
"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness." |
| Billy Graham |
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| Quotation 57 : | FORGIVENESS
"Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 58 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness does not mean excusing." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 59 : | FORGIVENESS
"Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him." |
| Charles H. Brent |
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| Quotation 60 : | FORGIVENESS
"You are hanging over the mouth of hell by a single thread, and that thread is breaking. Only a gasp for breath, only a stopping of the heart for a single moment, and you will be in an eternal world, without God, without hope, without forgiveness. Oh, can" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 61 : | FORGIVENESS
"The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful i" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 62 : | FORGIVENESS
"God does not exalt His mercy at the expense of His justice. And in order to maintain His justice, all sin without exception must be punished. Contrary to popular opinion, with God there is no such thing as mere forgiveness. There is only justice." |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 63 : | FORGIVENESS
"The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God's forgiveness thro" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 64 : | FORGIVENESS
"No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness." |
| John Bunyan |
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| Quotation 65 : | FORGIVENESS
"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins." |
| Karl Barth |
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| Quotation 66 : | FORGIVENESS
"Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness." |
| Lee Strobel |
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| Quotation 67 : | FORGIVENESS
"We tend to drag up our old sins, that we tend to live under a vague sense of guilt...we are not nearly as vigorous in appropriating God's forgiveness as He is in extending it. Consequently, instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Ch" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 68 : | FORGIVENESS
"God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do." |
| Jim Bakker |
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| Quotation 69 : | FORGIVENESS
"Asking for forgiveness from others in a scriptural manner involves acknowledging that you have sinned against them and that you desire mercy and pardon (not to be given what you deserve). Asking for forgiveness is vital for reconciliation and may lead to" |
| John C. Broger |
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| Quotation 70 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness on the part of God always has a judicial basis, not an emotional basis, and represents an attitude of God based upon the satisfaction of His righteousness in some way." |
| John F. Walvoord |
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| Quotation 71 : | FORGIVENESS
"Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy. Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come thither a" |
| John Owen |
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| Quotation 72 : | FORGIVENESS
"The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice - and so the pain - o" |
| John Stott |
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| Quotation 73 : | FORGIVENESS
"And seldom if ever do I leave the pulpit without a sense of partial failure, a mood of penitence, a cry to God for forgiveness, and a resolve to look to Him for grace to do better in the future." |
| John Stott |
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| Quotation 74 : | FORGIVENESS
"Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience." |
| John Stott |
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| Quotation 75 : | FORGIVENESS
"To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures, and that as the reigning Lord he now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating gift of the Spirit to all who rep" |
| John Stott |
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| Quotation 76 : | FORGIVENESS
"I preached on the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith. While I was speaking, several dropped down as dead and among the rest such a cry was heard of sinners groaning for the righteousness of faith that it almost drowned my voice. But m" |
| John Wesley |
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| Quotation 77 : | FORGIVENESS
"If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption." |
| Josh McDowell |
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| Quotation 78 : | FORGIVENESS
"Who are you helping most when you forgive the person who hurt you? Actually, you're helping yourself more than the other person. I always looked at forgiving people who hurt me as being really hard. I thought it seemed so unfair for them to receive forgiv" |
| Joyce Meyer |
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| Quotation 79 : | FORGIVENESS
"The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness." |
| Ravi Zacharias |
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| Quotation 80 : | FORGIVENESS
"Remember, regaining your mind is a process. We all fail at one time or another. God knows our weaknesses; that's why He gave us 1 John 1:9. Just ask for forgiveness and envision the blood of Jesus washing away your sin." |
| Joyce Meyer |
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| Quotation 81 : | FORGIVENESS
"If you're a follower of Jesus but you feel distant from him during this era of your life, if you're having difficulty resting easy in his forgiveness, could it be because you're blatantly refusing to let go of your animosity toward another person." |
| Lee Strobel |
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| Quotation 82 : | FORGIVENESS
"Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cros" |
| Lee Strobel |
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| Quotation 83 : | FORGIVENESS
"Perhaps the reason you feel guilty is because you are guilty. The answer to your guilt problem is not rationalization or self-justification, but forgiveness. The price of forgiveness is repentance. Without it there is no forgiveness and no relief from the" |
| R.C. Sproul |
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| Quotation 84 : | FORGIVENESS
"One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it." |
| Ravi Zacharias |
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| Quotation 85 : | FORGIVENESS
"Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior." |
| Rick Warren |
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| Quotation 86 : | FORGIVENESS
"When Paul preached "the cross" he preached a message which explained that this instrument of rejection had been used by God as His instrument of reconciliation. Man's means of bringing death to Jesus was God's means to bring life to the world. Man's symbo" |
| Sinclair B. Ferguson |
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| Quotation 87 : | FORGIVENESS
"When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ has done much more for us. He died for us, but he also lived for us. Now he has sent his own Spirit to u" |
| Sinclair B. Ferguson |
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| Quotation 88 : | FORGIVENESS
"Indeed, in conversion, a man must make a decision. We shy away from that term because in modern jargon a "decision" has come to be identified with an outward expression, such as raising the hand or going forward to the front. While such external acts have" |
| Walter J. Chantry |
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| Quotation 89 : | FORGIVENESS
"Equally in the Christian life, to stumble and fall and then to flounder in the dust is sin, certainly. It calls for repentance and it needs God's forgiveness. For it is not necessary for me to walk with the Lord like that, hiding behind the excuse that "I" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 90 : | FORGIVENESS
"Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spir" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 91 : | FORGIVENESS
"I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost; Christianity without Christ; forgiveness without repentance; salvation without regeneration; politics without God; and Heaven without Hell." |
| William Booth |
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| Quotation 92 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." |
| Hannah More |
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| Quotation 93 : | FORGIVENESS
"Forgiveness is God's command." |
| Martin Luther |
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| Quotation 94 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs." |
| Saint Augustine |
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| Quotation 95 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." |
| Joseph Addison |
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| Quotation 96 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian." |
| Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 97 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions." |
| Jamie Oliver |
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| Quotation 98 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have." |
| Sean O'Casey |
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| Quotation 99 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other." |
| Ernestine Rose |
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| Quotation 100 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb." |
| Howard Carter |
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| Quotation 101 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world." |
| Zahi Hawass |
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| Quotation 102 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest." |
| Lewis Gilbert |
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| Quotation 103 : | GAURDIANSHIP
"When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel." |
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| Quotation 104 : | GOAL
"If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 105 : | GOAL
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 106 : | GOAL
"Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Giving your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to r" |
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| Quotation 107 : | GOAL
"God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away." |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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| Quotation 108 : | GOAL
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." |
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| Quotation 109 : | GOAL
"Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it." |
| J.I. Packer |
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| Quotation 110 : | GOAL
"Of course, the goal of memorization is application of the Scripture to one's daily life" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 111 : | GOAL
"The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to k" |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 112 : | GOAL
"When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable) "toward the goal of true maturity" (Rom 12:2 JBP)." |
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| Quotation 113 : | GOAL
"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal." |
| Helen Keller |
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| Quotation 114 : | GOAL
"More difficult still, apparently, is the life of ever upward growth. Most men attempt it for a time, but growth is slow; and despair overtakes them while the goal is far away." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 115 : | GOAL
"If a man find the power of sin furiously at work within him, dragging his whole life downward to destruction, there is only one way to escape his fate--to take resolute hold of the upward power, and be borne by it to the opposite goal." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 116 : | GOAL
"The work begun by Nature is finished by the Supernatural--as we are wont to call the higher natural. And as the veil is lifted by Christianity it strikes men dumb with wonder. For the goal of Evolution is Jesus Christ." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 117 : | GOAL
"The goal of the organisms of the Spiritual World is nothing less than this--to be "holy as He is holy, and pure as He is pure." And by the Law of Conformity to Type, their final perfection is secured. The inward nature must develop out according to its Ty" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 118 : | GOAL
"The unceasing activity of the Creator, whereby in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal," |
| J.I. Packer |
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| Quotation 119 : | GOAL
"What is holiness? The best practical definition that I have heard is simply "without sin." That is the statement that was made of the Lord Jesus' life on earth (Hebrews 4:15), and that should be the goal of every person who desires to be godly. Granted, w" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 120 : | GOAL
"If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unt" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 121 : | GOAL
"My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund - namely, all we have" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 122 : | GOAL
"The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar." |
| John Wesley |
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| Quotation 123 : | GOAL
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 124 : | GOAL
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 125 : | GOAL
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 126 : | GOAL
"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't." |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 127 : | GOAL
"The goal of preaching is the glory of God reflected in the glad submission of his creation." |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 128 : | GOOD
"We must pass by the good, moral man, and seek the outcast. We must pass by those who, we think, would make the best members of the Church, and go with our invitation to the very refuse of Society. Sad to say, we must. sometimes pass by our very children w" |
| A.C. Dixon |
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| Quotation 129 : | GOOD
"Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 130 : | GOOD
"Divine sovereignty is not the sovereignty of a tyrannical Despot, but the exercised pleasure of One who is infinitely wise and good! Because God is infinitely wise He cannot err, and because He is infinitely righteous He will not do wrong." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 131 : | GOOD
"The mere fact itself that God's will is irresistible and irreversible fills me with fear, but once I realize that God wills only that which is good, my heart is made to rejoice." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 132 : | GOOD
"We can exert power for good, therefore, only if we are prepared to drum it into our heads that the church of Christ can never exert influence on civil society directly, only indirectly." |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 133 : | GOOD
"Saints are planted in the house of God; they have a kind of rooting there: but though the tabernacle be a good rooting place, yet we cannot root firmly there, unless we are rooted in Jesus Christ." |
| Abraham Wright |
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| Quotation 134 : | GOOD
"Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the governme" |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 135 : | GOOD
"The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish." |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 136 : | GOOD
"It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed" |
| Albert Barnes |
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| Quotation 137 : | GOOD
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 138 : | GOOD
"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 139 : | GOOD
"Here is the manliness of manhood that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 140 : | GOOD
"Troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your per" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 141 : | GOOD
"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 142 : | GOOD
"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 143 : | GOOD
"Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 144 : | GOOD
"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 145 : | HUNGER
"A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands." |
| Ed Cole |
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| Quotation 146 : | HUNGER
"The place God calls you to is where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." |
| Frederick Buechner |
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| Quotation 147 : | HUNGER
"I thank God that I have known hunger; I know what it is for God to feed me." |
| Jack Hyles |
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| Quotation 148 : | HUNGER
"Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God." |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 149 : | HUNGER
"The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life." |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 150 : | HUNGER
"Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with ete" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 151 : | HUNGER
"Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as" |
| Elisabeth Elliot |
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| Quotation 152 : | HUNGER
"Martin Luther said once, 'If I were God, I'd kick the world to pieces.' But Martin Luther wasn't God. God is God, and God has never kicked the world to pieces. He keeps re-entering the world. He keeps offering himself to the world by grace, keeps somehow" |
| Frederick Buechner |
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| Quotation 153 : | HUNGER
"It is now agreed as a mere question of anthropology that the universal language of the human soul has always been "I perish with hunger." This is what fits it for Christ. There is a grandeur in this cry from the depths which makes its very unhappiness sub" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 154 : | HUNGER
"Do not even such things as are most bitter to the flesh, tend to awaken Christians to faith and prayer, to a sight of the emptiness of this world, and the fadingness of the best it yield? Doth not God by these things (ofttimes) call our sins to remembranc" |
| John Bunyan |
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| Quotation 155 : | HUNGER
"Do you have a hunger for God? If we don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with sm" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 156 : | HUNGER
"That's what I think fasting is at heart. It's an intensification of prayer. It's a physical explanation point at the end of the sentence, "We hunger for you to come in power." It's a cry with your body, "I really mean it, Lord! This much, I hunger for you" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 157 : | HUNGER
"The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 158 : | HUNGER
"The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 159 : | HUNGER
"What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw" |
| Nancy Leigh DeMoss |
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| Quotation 160 : | HUNGER
"Sin is the misguided and selfish determination to seek happiness in places where ultimately only emptiness and disillusionment are found. Spiritual hunger is not sin. Sin is declining God's offer of filet mignon to fill our spiritual bellies with rancid g" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 161 : | HUNGER
"I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger" |
| Samuel Rutherford |
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| Quotation 162 : | HUNGER
"Hunger and longing for Christ hath brought on such a necessity of enjoying Christ that I will not, I dow not want him; for I cannot master nor command Christ's love." |
| Samuel Rutherford |
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| Quotation 163 : | HUNGER
"We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to" |
| Sinclair B. Ferguson |
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| Quotation 164 : | HUNGER
"God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He wi" |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 165 : | HUNGER
"Fasting in the biblical sense is choosing not to partake of food because your spiritual hunger is so deep, you determination in intercession so intense, or your spiritual warfare so demanding that you have temporarily set aside even fleshly needs to give" |
| Wesley L. Duewel |
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| Quotation 166 : | HUNGER
"Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like." |
| William Law |
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| Quotation 167 : | INNER REALISATION
"Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them." |
| Paulo Coelho |
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| Quotation 168 : | INNER REALISATION
"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!" |
| Max Lucado |
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| Quotation 169 : | INNER REALISATION
"People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Quotation 170 : | INNER REALISATION
"Be natural; forget yourself; be so absorbed in what you are doing and in the realisation of the presence of God, and in the glory and the greatness of the Truth that you are preaching, and the occasion that brings you together, that you forget yourself co" |
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| Quotation 171 : | INNER REALISATION
"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." |
| Virginia Woolf |
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| Quotation 172 : | INNER REALISATION
"There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on." |
| Zayn Malik |
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| Quotation 173 : | INNER REALISATION
"When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling." |
| Jeanette Winterson |
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| Quotation 174 : | INNER REALISATION
"We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really ext" |
| Irvine Welsh |
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| Quotation 175 : | INNER REALISATION
"It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid." |
| William Faulkner |
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"There are enough evidences of supreme skill in the structure of the human hand alone to prove the existence, intelligence and benevolence of God in the face of all the sophistry of infidelity." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 177 : | INTELLIGENCE
"The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one's beliefs." |
| Alister McGrath |
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| Quotation 178 : | INTELLIGENCE
"We are sinners simply because we choose to sin or live selfishly. We are never held accountable for what we are not the author of. Ability is always the measure of responsibility. God has given us the ability to direct our lives, either according to intel" |
| Gordon Olson |
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| Quotation 179 : | INTELLIGENCE
"Everything we do proceeds from a decision of will, involves our intelligence and perception, leads to emotional reactions or experiences, is approved or disapproved by the conscience, and is registered in the memory in complete perspective." |
| Gordon Olson |
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| Quotation 180 : | INTELLIGENCE
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 181 : | INTELLIGENCE
"Christ wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head. He wants us to be simple, single-minded, affectionate, and teachable, as good children are; but He also wants every bit of intelligence we have to be alert at its job, and in first-class fighting trim." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 182 : | INTELLIGENCE
"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 183 : | INTELLIGENCE
"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow." |
| Helen Keller |
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| Quotation 184 : | INTELLIGENCE
"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence." |
| John Calvin |
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| Quotation 185 : | INTELLIGENCE
"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it." |
| Thomas a Kempis |
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| Quotation 186 : | INTELLIGENCE
"Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment." |
| Charles H. Brent |
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| Quotation 187 : | INTELLIGENCE
"It is not intelligence but intellectual pride that shuts people out of the kingdom. Intelligence is a gift of God, but when it is perverted by pride it becomes a barrier to God, because trust is in the gift rather than in the Giver." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 188 : | INTELLIGENCE
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 189 : | INTELLIGENCE
"Here then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a" |
| R.C. Sproul |
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| Quotation 190 : | INTUITION
"Hence the emotion, mind and will remain in a spiritual man but are subject entirely to the guidance of the intuition. The emotion now rejoices solely in what the spirit likes, loves only what the spirit directs, feels merely what the spirit permits. It ha" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 191 : | INTUITION
"We should follow still the small voice that comes from our intuition instead of being over-awed by people's knowledge. Otherwise we shall fall into heresy or become fanatical. If we quietly follow the teaching of the Anointing we shall be delivered from t" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 192 : | INTUITION
"Mysticism is the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even contrary to historical fact or objective divine revelation." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 193 : | INTUITION
"God communes with us entirely in the spirit. When we say man's spirit is dead, we are indicating his intuition is insensitive to God and His realities." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 194 : | INTUITION
"Though all Christians possess a regenerated spirit, not all Christians are spiritual. Many are still fleshly. Their carnal mind is still full of wandering thoughts, reasons and plans; their emotion runs wild with many carnal interests, desires and tendenc" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 195 : | INTUITION
"Milk is pre-digested food. What this denotes is that the soulish believer cannot maintain clear fellowship with God in the spirit's intuition and hence must depend upon other more advanced Christians for the things of God." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 196 : | INTUITION
"Besides the function of intuition and communion, our spirit performs still another important task - that of correcting and reprimanding so as to render us uneasy when we fall short of the glory of God." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 197 : | INTUITION
"Let the Christian mark this well that once he has perceived the will of God in his spirit's intuition his whole being needs to be employed actively in executing God's will. He should not be passive." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 198 : | INTUITION
"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 199 : | LIFE
"We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessing" |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 200 : | LIFE
"We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and" |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 201 : | LIFE
"Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, t" |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 202 : | LIFE
"There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe." |
| A.C. Dixon |
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| Quotation 203 : | LIFE
"Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean t" |
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| Quotation 204 : | LIFE
"A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter at so crazy a scheme, with the Church joining loudly in the merriment. Yet today, who laughs now? We ought to be the gladdest and the most exultant" |
| A.J. Gossip |
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| Quotation 205 : | LIFE
"What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault," |
| A.J. Gossip |
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| Quotation 206 : | LIFE
"You will not stroll into Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one's leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much to do, and put down and forgotten when our" |
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| Quotation 207 : | LIFE
"Do you find life too difficult for you? So did we, but not now, with the amplitudes of grace there are for us in Jesus Christ, it grows satisfying and successful and exciting beyond measure, becomes another and a richer thing." |
| A.J. Gossip |
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| Quotation 208 : | LIFE
"If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! If you are not bleating to get off, but asking to b" |
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| Quotation 209 : | LIFE
"In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'" |
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| Quotation 210 : | LIFE
"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 211 : | LIFE
"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 212 : | LIFE
"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 213 : | LIFE
"If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be fou" |
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| Quotation 214 : | LIFE
"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 215 : | LIFE
"In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety." |
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| Quotation 216 : | LIFE
"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 217 : | LIFE
"For not only does sound reason direct us to refuse the guidance of those who do or teach anything wrong, but it is by all means vital for the lover of truth, regardless of the threat of death, to choose to do and say what is right even before saving his o" |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 218 : | LIFE
"There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its biblical sense, but something else and something less." |
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| Quotation 219 : | LIFE
"The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life." |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 220 : | LIFE
"God built into the creation a variety of cultural spheres, such as the family, economics, politics, art, and intellectual inquiry. Each of these spheres has its own proper "business" and needs its own unique pattern of authority. When we confuse spheres," |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 221 : | LIFE
"If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency." |
| Adoniram Judson |
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| Quotation 222 : | LIFE
"...I have now to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world? Whether you can consent to see her departure to a heathen land, and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of a missionary" |
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| Quotation 223 : | LIFE
"We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only th" |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 224 : | LIFE
"Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 225 : | LIFE
"Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 226 : | LIFE
"Taking up my "cross" means a life voluntarily surrendered to God." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 227 : | LIFE
"The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 228 : | LIFE
"The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 229 : | LIFE
"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 230 : | LIFE
"The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 231 : | LIFE
"The motto of every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be "Devoted for life."" |
| Adoniram Judson |
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| Quotation 232 : | LIFE
"I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life. I cannot tell you the indescribable joy that has come into my heart and" |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 233 : | LIFE
"If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent" |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 234 : | LIFE
"If you have a Bible that's falling apart, you'll have a life that's not." |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 235 : | LIFE
"The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot m" |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 236 : | LIFE
"The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation." |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 237 : | LIFE
"It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery." |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 238 : | LIFE
"If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life." |
| Alan Keyes |
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| Quotation 239 : | LIFE
"The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights." |
| Alan Keyes |
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| Quotation 240 : | LIFE
"When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presenc" |
| Alan Keyes |
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| Quotation 241 : | LIFE
"You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation." |
| Alan Keyes |
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| Quotation 242 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"As a matter of honor, one man owes it to another to manifest the truth." |
| Thomas Aquinas |
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| Quotation 243 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"There is a practical error very common among God's people. All of them profess to believe that the Holy Spirit may convert souls at any age, and that conversion cannot take place too soon; while yet they do not look for the conversion of children with the" |
| Andrew Bonar |
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| Quotation 244 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite." |
| F.F. Bruce |
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| Quotation 245 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"Beloved, I say, let your fears go, lest they make you fainthearted. Stop inspiring fear in those around you and now take your stand in faith. God has been good and He will continue to manifest His goodness. Let us approach these days expecting to see the" |
| Francis Frangipane |
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| Quotation 246 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"There will be no "knights in shining armor" in God's kingdom; our armor will have many dings and dents. No, no perfect Hollywood heroes will ride to save the day; just wearied saints to look to God and, in weakness, find Christ's strength. This, indeed, i" |
| Francis Frangipane |
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| Quotation 247 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment." |
| George Whitefield |
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| Quotation 248 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people." |
| J.C. Ryle |
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| Quotation 249 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles." |
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| Quotation 250 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"True faith will inevitably manifest itself in the performance of works of obedience... The performance of works are the result of faith and the fruit of justification." |
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| Quotation 251 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"“The one marvelous secret of a holy life lies not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus manifest themselves in my mortal flesh. Sanctification is "Christ in you."... Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it i" |
| Oswald Chambers |
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| Quotation 252 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within, motivated by a love for the glory and honor of God." |
| Ray C. Stedman |
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| Quotation 253 : | MANIFEST AND UNMANIFEST
"God is looking for men and women who will never be content with mere experiences and "blessings," but who will take up the cross daily and follow Jesus and thus manifest in their lives and in their service the reality of those words, "It is no longer I, b" |
| Zac Poonen |
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| Quotation 254 : | MANKIND
"Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give." |
| David R. Hawkins |
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| Quotation 255 : | MANKIND
"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for." |
| Henry Van Dyke |
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| Quotation 256 : | MANKIND
"There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." |
| Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| Quotation 257 : | MANKIND
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of" |
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| Quotation 258 : | MANKIND
"In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis." |
| — Sigmund Freud |
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| Quotation 259 : | MANKIND
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." |
| — Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Quotation 260 : | MANKIND
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal." |
| — Aleister Crowley |
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| Quotation 261 : | MANKIND
"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy:" |
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| Quotation 262 : | MANKIND
"In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do." |
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| Quotation 263 : | MANKIND
"Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the" |
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| Quotation 264 : | MANKIND
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift." |
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| Quotation 265 : | MANKIND
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." |
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| Quotation 266 : | MANKIND
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or men" |
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| Quotation 267 : | MANKIND
"All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books." |
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| Quotation 268 : | MANKIND
"It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind." |
| — Mike Norton |
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| Quotation 269 : | MANKIND
"Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor." |
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| Quotation 270 : | MANKIND
"Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, b" |
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| Quotation 271 : | MANKIND
"Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end.
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| Quotation 272 : | MANKIND
"The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle." |
| — Rumi |
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| Quotation 273 : | MANKIND
"Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind." |
| — Richelle Mead |
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| Quotation 274 : | MANKIND
"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them." |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| Quotation 275 : | MANKIND
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| Quotation 276 : | MANKIND
"“Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”" |
| John F.Kennedy |
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| Quotation 277 : | MANKIND
"O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!" |
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| Quotation 278 : | MANKIND
"mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow." |
| — Joseph Heller |
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| Quotation 279 : | MANKIND
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." |
| — Rudyard Kipling |
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| Quotation 280 : | MANKIND
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other." |
| — Mark Twain |
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| Quotation 281 : | MANKIND
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." |
| — Dalai Lama |
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| Quotation 282 : | MANKIND
"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better." |
| — George Orwell |
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| Quotation 283 : | MANKIND
"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together." |
| — Jack Kerouac |
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| Quotation 284 : | MOTHERHOOD
"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." |
| Robert Browning |
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| Quotation 285 : | MOTHERHOOD
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children." |
| Jessica Lange |
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| Quotation 286 : | MOTHERHOOD
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws." |
| Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Quotation 287 : | MOTHERHOOD
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment." |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| Quotation 288 : | MOTHERHOOD
"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute." |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| Quotation 289 : | MOTHERHOOD
"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race." |
| Margaret Sanger |
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| Quotation 290 : | MOTHERHOOD
"Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand." |
| Helen Hunt Jackson |
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| Quotation 291 : | MOTHERHOOD
"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing." |
| Ricki Lake |
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| Quotation 292 : | MOTHERHOOD
"Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing." |
| Jessica Simpson |
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| Quotation 293 : | MOTHERHOOD
"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Quotation 294 : | MOTHERHOOD
"We are born of love; Love is our mother." |
| Rumi |
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"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." |
| Mother Teresa |
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| Quotation 296 : | POVERTY
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it." |
| Bill Cosby |
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| Quotation 297 : | POVERTY
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty." |
| Mother Teresa |
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| Quotation 298 : | POVERTY
"Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools." |
| J. K. Rowling |
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| Quotation 299 : | POVERTY
"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination." |
| Alan Watts |
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| Quotation 300 : | POVERTY
"Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance." |
| Ayrton Senna |
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| Quotation 301 : | POVERTY
"A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty." |
| Charles B. Rangel |
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| Quotation 302 : | POVERTY
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles." |
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| Quotation 303 : | POVERTY
"The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden." |
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| Quotation 304 : | POVERTY
"I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable." |
| Albert Camus |
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| Quotation 305 : | POVERTY
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." |
| May Sarton |
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| Quotation 306 : | POVERTY
"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them." |
| Mother Teresa |
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| Quotation 307 : | POVERTY
"Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their nee" |
| John Wycliffe |
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"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation." |
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"When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the" |
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"With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and st" |
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"Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible." |
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"I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and it's so much richer than you might get in an average Greek mythology text. I feel like an archaeologist - I'm dusting off these things t" |
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| Quotation 313 : | REFERENCE POINT
"Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time." |
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"The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it." |
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"I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday." |
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| Quotation 316 : | REFERENCE POINT
"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference." |
| Carl von Clausewitz |
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| Quotation 317 : | REFERENCE POINT
"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." |
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| Quotation 318 : | REFERENCE POINT
"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else." |
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| Quotation 319 : | REFERENCE POINT
"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose." |
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| Quotation 320 : | REFERENCE POINT
"The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to p" |
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| Quotation 321 : | REFERENCE POINT
"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true." |
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"I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear." |
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| Quotation 323 : | REFERENCE POINT
"As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my you" |
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"Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women." |
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"Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities." |
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"I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It'" |
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| Quotation 327 : | RELATION
"Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come." |
| Albert Barnes |
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| Quotation 328 : | RELATION
"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive." |
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| Quotation 329 : | RELATION
"There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in" |
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| Quotation 330 : | RELATION
"Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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"I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ." |
| David Livingstone |
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| Quotation 332 : | RELATION
"I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to w" |
| David Livingstone |
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| Quotation 333 : | RELATION
"Amplius means broader, fuller, wider. That is God's perpetual word to us in relation to filling of the Holy Spirit. We can never have enough to satisfy His yearning desire. When we have apprehended most, there are always unexpected supplies in store ready" |
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| Quotation 334 : | RELATION
"Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God." |
| George Macdonald |
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| Quotation 335 : | RELATION
"The relation between the spiritual man and his Environment is, in theological language, a filial relation. With the new Spirit, the filial correspondence, he knows the Father--and this is Life Eternal." |
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| Quotation 336 : | RELATION
"In a sense, all that belongs to Time belongs also to Eternity; but these lower correspondences are in their nature unfitted for an Eternal Life. Even if they were perfect in their relation to their Environment, they would still not be Eternal... An Eterna" |
| Henry Drummond |
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"Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects." |
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"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable." |
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"A good friend is my nearest relation." |
| Thomas Fuller |
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| Quotation 340 : | RELATION
"Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world." |
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"Pride, in relation to other people, is comparing ourselves with others and seeing ourselves as superior to them in some way - whether it be in character, conduct, or achievement." |
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"If he but casts one longing glance it is sufficient to disclose to us that he does not truly recognize where the world stands in relation to the cross. Only after one is actually willing to offer his soul life to death will he be fit to follow the "Sermon" |
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"Repentance is as much a mark of a Christian, as faith is. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a true Christian." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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"You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If" |
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"Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call to this country . . . It wakes us up to the fact that our God is sovereign and we should be constantly in a state of repentance humbly seeking God's favor." |
| Chuck Colson |
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"There is no doubt that all men from Adam on have had to repent in order to have a right relationship with God. The importance of repentance is demonstrated by the fact that men of every biblical age preached it." |
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| Quotation 347 : | REPENTANCE
"I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved. Oh, if we would only make salvation plain and explain to men that we" |
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| Quotation 348 : | REPENTANCE
"I am glad when I see someone troubled over his sins, but we must be very careful in presenting the plan of salvation not to insist that a person have a certain degree of sorrow before he can be saved. That is not repentance, and such a requirement for sal" |
| Curtis Hutson |
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| Quotation 349 : | REPENTANCE
"Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Saviour without repenting or changing his mind. The very fact that he trusts Christ for salvation shows that he has changed his mind regarding sin, salvatio" |
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"Repentance is not a merely intellectual change of mind or mere grief, still less doing penance, but a radical transformation of the entire person, a fundamental turnaround involving mind and action and including overtones of grief, which result in (spirit" |
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| Quotation 351 : | REPENTANCE
"Just as the angel's announcement to Joseph declared Jesus' primary purpose to be to save His people from their sins, so the first announcement of the kingdom (delivered by John the Baptist) is associated with repentance and confession of sin." |
| D.A. Carson |
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"We understand why in the Bible repentance precedes faith. Before people find their need -- love met in God, they are looking to other things, often money, for satisfaction. So believing in God has to involve a 180-degree turn away (that is, repentance) fr" |
| Daniel Fuller |
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"Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace wi" |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjack's wares. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution" |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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"True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding ha" |
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"Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place." |
| J.I. Packer |
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"Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, wi" |
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| Quotation 358 : | REPENTANCE
"Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the wi" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 359 : | REPENTANCE
"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" |
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| Quotation 360 : | REPENTANCE
"You cannot study pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter." |
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"Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 362 : | REPENTANCE
"He had, when in health, wickedly refused Christ, yet in his death-agony, he had superstitiously sent for me. Too late, he sighed for the ministry of reconciliation, and sought to enter in at the closed door, but he was not able. There was no space left hi" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 363 : | REPENTANCE
"I learn from the Scriptures that repentance is just as necessary to salvation as faith is, and the faith that has not repentance going with it will have to be repented of." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 364 : | REPENTANCE
"Our prayers have stains in them, our faith is mixed with unbelief, our repentance is not so tender as it should be, our communion is distant and interrupted. We cannot pray without sinning, and there is filth even in our tears." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 365 : | REPENTANCE
"The coming of God's reign either demands repentance or brings judgment." |
| D.A. Carson |
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| Quotation 366 : | REPENTANCE
"Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God." |
| Billy Sunday |
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| Quotation 367 : | REPENTANCE
"Instead of REPENTANCE, people are getting all kinds of counterfeit spiritual experiences. There seems to be almost no discernment at all." |
| Andrew Strom |
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| Quotation 368 : | REPENTANCE
"God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination." |
| Augustine |
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"The core and essence of the Gospel is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifi" |
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| Quotation 370 : | SACRIFICE
"If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" |
| David Livingstone |
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| Quotation 371 : | SACRIFICE
"Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little." |
| Erwin Lutzer |
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| Quotation 372 : | SACRIFICE
"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality." |
| Florence Nightingale |
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| Quotation 373 : | SACRIFICE
"Our god is the thing, or person, which we think most precious, for whom we would make the greatest sacrifice, and who moves our heart with the warmest love. He is the person or thing that if lost would leave us desolate." |
| Alan Redpath |
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| Quotation 374 : | SACRIFICE
"Such was God's original love for man that He was willing to stoop to any sacrifice to save him; and the gift of a Saviour was the mere expression of that love." |
| Albert Barnes |
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| Quotation 375 : | SACRIFICE
"Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God." |
| Andrew Murray |
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| Quotation 376 : | SACRIFICE
"Fasting helps express, deepens, confirms the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves, to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God." |
| Andrew Murray |
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| Quotation 377 : | SACRIFICE
"Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work." |
| Andrew Murray |
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| Quotation 378 : | SACRIFICE
"My heart tells me that if I have the happiness of being employed in this mission, I will go and not return; but I shall be happy if the Lord will complete the sacrifice where He has begun it, and make the little blood I have shed in that land, the earnest" |
| Isaac Jogues |
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| Quotation 379 : | SACRIFICE
"When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 380 : | SACRIFICE
"You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of p" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 381 : | SACRIFICE
"People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege." |
| David Livingstone |
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| Quotation 382 : | SACRIFICE
"Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves." |
| Elisabeth Elliot |
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| Quotation 383 : | SACRIFICE
"Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable W" |
| Elisabeth Elliot |
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| Quotation 384 : | SACRIFICE
"Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior." |
| Erwin Lutzer |
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| Quotation 385 : | SACRIFICE
"The church for too long has followed Casper, the friendly ghost instead of seeking the fire of the Holy Spirit. We have turned limp at the thought of our own cross; we faint when we think of suffering or sacrifice. Beloved, it is time to embrace the fire" |
| Francis Frangipane |
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| Quotation 386 : | SACRIFICE
"In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain." |
| Frederick W. Robertson |
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| Quotation 387 : | SACRIFICE
"Sacrifice alone, bare and unrelieved, is ghastly, unnatural, and dead; but self-sacrifice, illuminated by love, is warmth and life; it is the death of Christ, the life of God, and the blessedness and only proper life of man." |
| Frederick W. Robertson |
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| Quotation 388 : | SACRIFICE
"The secret heart is devotion's temple; there the saint lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen but not unaccepted." |
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| Quotation 389 : | SACRIFICE
"No sacrifice should be too great for Him who gave Himself for us." |
| Harry Ironside |
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| Quotation 390 : | SACRIFICE
"He who loves will rejoice in the Truth, rejoice not in what he has been taught to believe; not in this Church's doctrine or in that; not in this issue, or in that issue; but "in the Truth." He will accept only what is real; he will strive to get at facts;" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 391 : | SACRIFICE
"There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough - a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice - which costs nothing, and is worth nothing." |
| J.C. Ryle |
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| Quotation 392 : | SACRIFICE
"To maintain pure truth in the church, we should be ready to make any sacrifice, to hazard peace, to risk dissention and run the chance of division." |
| J.C. Ryle |
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| Quotation 393 : | SENSES
"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 394 : | SENSES
"These things are not strange, Small One, though they are beyond our senses." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 395 : | SENSES
"God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace." |
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"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!" |
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"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." |
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| Quotation 398 : | SENSES
"Imagination ennobles appetites which in themselves are low, and spiritualizes acts which, else, are only animal. But the pleasures which begin in the senses only sensualize." |
| Frederick W. Robertson |
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| Quotation 399 : | SENSES
"The Life of the senses, high and low, may perfect itself in Nature. Even the Life of thought may find a large complement in surrounding things. But the higher thought, and the conscience, and the religious Life, can only perfect themselves in God." |
| Henry Drummond |
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"The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority w" |
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"Let thy great joy and comfort evermore be, to have His pleasure done in thee, though in pains, sickness, persecutions, oppressions, or inward griefs and pressures of heart, coldness or barrenness of mind, darkening of thy will and senses, or any temptatio" |
| Robert Leighton |
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"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you a" |
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| Quotation 403 : | SENSES
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." |
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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've bee" |
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"Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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"Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray inright earne" |
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| Quotation 407 : | SLEEP
"'Something of God flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.'" |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 408 : | SLEEP
"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 409 : | SLEEP
"The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body... Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 410 : | SLEEP
"The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 411 : | SLEEP
"I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 412 : | SLEEP
"Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do n" |
| G. Campbell Morgan |
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| Quotation 413 : | SLEEP
"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning." |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Quotation 414 : | SLEEP
"The man who gets ahead is the man who works while others sleep. The people who do great works for God are those who are content and stay at their job." |
| Jack Hyles |
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| Quotation 415 : | SLEEP
"The man who gets ahead is the man who works while others sleep." |
| Jack Hyles |
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| Quotation 416 : | SLEEP
"The labor and sweat of our brows is so far from being a curse, that without it our very bread would not be so great a blessing. If it were not for labor, men could neither eat so much, nor relish so pleasantly, nor sleep so soundly, nor be so healthful, s" |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 417 : | SLEEP
"Let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers in the east." |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 418 : | SLEEP
"Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake." |
| John Bunyan |
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| Quotation 419 : | SLEEP
"Satan rocks the cradle when we sleep at our devotions." |
| Joseph Hall |
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| Quotation 420 : | SLEEP
"Those who would bring great things to pass must rise early. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty." |
| Matthew Henry |
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| Quotation 421 : | SLEEP
"Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on" |
| Oswald Chambers |
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| Quotation 422 : | SLEEP
"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence." |
| Samuel Rutherford |
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| Quotation 423 : | SLEEP
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine." |
| Thomas Aquinas |
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| Quotation 424 : | SLEEP
"It is a shame when the church itself is a cemetery, where the living sleep above the ground, as the dead do beneath." |
| Thomas Fuller |
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| Quotation 425 : | SLEEP
"The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise." |
| Richard Sibbes |
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| Quotation 426 : | SLEEP
"I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is n" |
| Robert Murray McCheyne |
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| Quotation 427 : | SLEEP
"Providence would seem to sleep unless faith and prayer awaken it. The disciples had but little faith in their Master's accounts, yet that little faith awakened him in a storm, and he relieved them. Unbelief doth only discourage God from showing his power" |
| Stephen Charnock |
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| Quotation 428 : | SLEEP
"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night," |
| Thomas Fuller |
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| Quotation 429 : | SLEEP
"How far are they from offering violence to themselves in hearing, who come to the word in a dull, drowsy manner, as if they came to church to take a receipt to make them sleep. The word is to feed; it is strange to sleep at meat. The word judgeth men: it" |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 430 : | SLEEP
"Take heed of drowsiness in hearing; drowsiness shows much irreverance. How lively are many when they are about the world, but in the worship of God how drowsy. ...In the preaching of the Word, is not the bread of life broken to you; and will a man fall as" |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 431 : | SLEEP
"In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ." |
| William Gurnall |
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| Quotation 432 : | SLEEP
"You'll always stay young if live honestly, eat slowly, sleep sufficiently, work industriously, and worship faithfully." |
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| Quotation 433 : | SLEEP
"Thou must be an attentive hearer; he that is awake, but wanders with his eye or heart, what doth he but sleep with his eyes open?" |
| William Gurnall |
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| Quotation 434 : | SLEEP
"One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after." |
| George Herbert |
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| Quotation 435 : | SLEEP
"No man can become a saint in his sleep." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 436 : | SLEEP
"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 437 : | SLEEP
"Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 438 : | TEACHER
"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds." |
| Frederick W. Robertson |
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| Quotation 439 : | TEACHER
"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 440 : | TEACHER
"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self." |
| Helen Keller |
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| Quotation 441 : | TEACHER
"Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 442 : | TEACHER
"It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 443 : | TEACHER
"A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation." |
| Howard Crosby |
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| Quotation 444 : | TEACHER
"We may note in passing that He was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three results-Hatred-Terror-Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild adm" |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 445 : | TEACHER
"“I know what Eternity is, though I cannot define the word to satisfy a metaphysician. The little child taught by some grandmother Lois, in a cottage, knows what she means when she tells him "you will live forever," though both scholar and teacher would be" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 446 : | TEACHER
"No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that no law of life may be based upon an isolated text. Every" |
| G. Campbell Morgan |
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| Quotation 447 : | TEACHER
"If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life." |
| Lee Strobel |
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| Quotation 448 : | WISDOM
"The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true." |
| Lucius Caelius Lactantius |
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| Quotation 449 : | WISDOM
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 450 : | WISDOM
"Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 451 : | WISDOM
"Wisdom in scripture is, broadly speaking, the knowledge of God's world and the knack of fitting oneself into it." |
| Cornelius Plantinga |
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| Quotation 452 : | WISDOM
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." |
| Francis Bacon |
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| Quotation 453 : | WISDOM
"No mind, no wisdom--temporary mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom." |
| Adoniram Judson |
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| Quotation 454 : | WISDOM
"There is nothing more foolish than an act of wickedness; there is no wisdom equal to that of obeying God." |
| Albert Barnes |
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| Quotation 455 : | WISDOM
"The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 456 : | WISDOM
"What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others." |
| A.C. Dixon |
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| Quotation 457 : | WISDOM
"I wonder if there was ever a time when true spiritual worship was at a lower ebb. To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been" |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 458 : | WISDOM
"The danger may exceed thy resistance, but not God's assistance; the enemies' power may surpass thy strength, their subtlety outwit thy prudence, but neither can excel the wisdom and might of God that is with thee." |
| Abraham Wright |
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| Quotation 459 : | WISDOM
"If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency." |
| Adoniram Judson |
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| Quotation 460 : | WISDOM
"True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid;" it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid."" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 461 : | WISDOM
"Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God." |
| Ralph Cudworth |
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| Quotation 462 : | WISDOM
"Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence is forever out" |
| Nehemiah Adams |
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| Quotation 463 : | WISDOM
"In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness f" |
| B.B. Warfield |
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| Quotation 464 : | WISDOM
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 465 : | WISDOM
"Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 466 : | WISDOM
"Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 467 : | WISDOM
"The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer. Christ is our Joseph, who has granaries full of wheat; but He does not treat us as Joseph did the Egyptians, for He opens the door of His storehouse and bids us call all the g" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 468 : | WISDOM
"The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 469 : | WISDOM
"Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer." |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 470 : | WISDOM
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Quotation 471 : | WISDOM
"God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better." |
| Elisabeth Elliot |
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| Quotation 472 : | WISDOM
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." |
| Francis Bacon |
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| Quotation 473 : | WISDOM
"I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people. In fact, I have discovered that it pleases Him to hide His manifold wisdom in a variety" |
| Francis Frangipane |
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