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“The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.” quote by John Stott — Download Open image

“The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.”

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Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating…

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Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global…

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[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right,…

All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at…

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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

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So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred…

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The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

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“Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not hear Christ’s…

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“many former sins have become crimes’, so that responsibility for dealing with them has passed from church to state, from priest to policeman (p.50), while others have dissipated into sicknesses, or at least into symptoms of sickness, so that in their case punishment has been replaced by treatment (pp.74ff.). A third convenient device called ‘collective irresponsibility’ has enabled us to…

When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the…

If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks…

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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

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The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

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Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.

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They either attach themselves to God's will, which results in their continuous progress, improvement and advancement, or they oppose God's will, are justly subjected…

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I believe that this was God's Will - to send a boy into the Reich, to let him become its Leader, in order to…

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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

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“God's forgot that ever I lived... He's forgot...and He never cared, nohow…" He smoothed her brown, rough-palmed hand; he held her hands to keep her from jerking herself away from his admonishing: "Oh, 'tis not true, the words yere a-sayin', Cean Smith; and well ye know it. Never does He forget a child o' His'n. 'Tis His children that forget…

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They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin'..." He laughed. "I reckon I ain't very forgivin', son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God's will jest has to…

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