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- Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have…
- The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
- ... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
- Here we are told that Christ really lives in me, if I have accepted Christ as my Savior. In other words, we have the words…
- They are equal reality. They are two streams of present reality, both equally promised. The Christian dead are already with Christ now, and Christ really…
- To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.
- Hudson Taylor said, "The Lord's work done in the Lord's way will never fail to have the Lord's provision." ...The Lord's work done in human…
- But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit by…
- Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era. In the area…
- Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living…
- ...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.
- The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or…
- There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may…
- The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and then stepped back…
- Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.
- And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with…
- Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and…
- When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it…
- When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it…
- Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a…
- Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth in Jesus." Truth…
- If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible,…
- The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper…
- ...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
- There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. — Sri Aurobindo
- Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with… — Richard Bach
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon