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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…
- God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
- What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian…
- There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known…
- Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder…
- Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life…
- God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's…
- 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…
- Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent…
- What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus…
- Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
- 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…
- Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever…
- 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…
- 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…
- William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth…
- The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed…
- 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…
- Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this…
- The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one…
- What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children —…
- The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul,…
- The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
- Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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 do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle