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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism…
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When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted…
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The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.
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True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of…
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True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from…
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The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you…
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The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
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Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it…
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Christianity is Christ because there isn't anything else. There is no atonement that somehow can be detached from who the Lord Jesus…
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This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or…
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When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to…
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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would…
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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity…
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The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's…
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Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease,…
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God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less…
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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Hope is the mainspring of life.
— Henry L. Stimson
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Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.
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