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- Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small…
- Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
- Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving,…
- 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…
- God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
- Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
- Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and…
- We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
- Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that…
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