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- Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God…
- A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and…
- All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
- God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as…
- Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form…
- I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained…
- God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is one…
- The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore,…
- Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at…
- God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do…
- It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian…
- The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.
- 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,…
- The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate…
- What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
- A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image,…
- If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and…
- If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time...
- The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
- Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in…
- What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children —…
- We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms,…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle