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"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 lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy."
R.C. Sproul |
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."
C.S. Lewis |
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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
C.S. Lewis |
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"Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription."
Isaac Newton |
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"I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them."
George Washington |
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"God alone satisfies."
Thomas A' Kempis |
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"When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight."
Thomas Watson |
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"Since He looked upon me, my heart is not my own. He hath run away to heaven with it."
Samuel Rutherford |
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"I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men."
Richard Baxter |
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"Nothing I am sure has such a tendency to quench the fire of religion as the possession of money."
J.C. Ryle |
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"Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace."
J.C. Ryle |
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"Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.”
Hudson Taylor |
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"Such a blessed people should be a thankful people."
Cotton Mather |
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"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world".
C.S. Lewis |
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"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it."
C.S. Lewis |
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"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened."
Billy Graham |
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"Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."
St. Augustine |
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"I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth."
A.W. Tozer |
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"If you truly feel the sweetness of the Cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men."
Robert Murray McCheyne |
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"Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous."
Martin Luther |
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"Lord, make me a crisis man. Let me not be a mile-post on a single road, but make me a fork that men must turn one way or another in facing Christ in me."
Jim Elliott |
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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
Jim Elliott |
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"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies."
Hudson Taylor |
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"Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless."
Francis Schaeffer |
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"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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"Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations."
Charles Spurgeon |
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"Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience."
A.W. Tozer |
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"Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly persuaded that all things happen by God's plan, and that nothing takes place by chance, will ever look to Him as the principal causes of things, yet will give attention to the secondary causes in their proper place."
John Calvin |
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"Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us."
John Stott |
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"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”
John Piper |
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While sailing to the New Hebrides John Paton lead the captain of the ship to Christ. At the close of the voyage John made it clear to the captain the Island he wished to be let off on. The captain knowing the Island was filled with head hunting cannibals refused saying they would be dead in minutes of arriving on the Island. John Paton boldly stated to the captain. "Sir, we died before we came!" |
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