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- Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God…
- 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…
- Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they…
- Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
- A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
- God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ,…
- There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.
- Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect 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…
- The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians,…
- For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
- Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
- Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer.…
- Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is…
- 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…
- There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
- The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle