"The key to liberation from the power of……" — R. Kent Hughes
"The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them."
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R. Kent Hughes
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18 Quotes by R. Kent Hughes
R. Kent Hughes has 18 quotes on this site.
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The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving…
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A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.
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Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the…
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One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it…
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God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.
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It is impossible for any Christian who spends the bulk of his evenings, month after month, week upon week, day…
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Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep,…
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
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On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not…
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The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but…
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The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in…
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Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying…
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More Abandoning Quotes
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything.…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from…
— Julia Hill
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start…
— Katrina Kenison
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
— Epictetus
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If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have…
— Tom Regan
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Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to…
— David Platt
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a…
— Gautama Buddha
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,…
— Gautama Buddha
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