“our standing is not on the ground of what we are, but on the ground of what Christ is.”
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T. Austin-Sparks, Revelation of Jesus Christ - Part 10 of 10 (transcript).
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“Experience is the key word to understanding modern man in the West. For everyday purposes, the mind is a useful instrument, but for the things of meaning, for the answers to the big questions, it is set aside.”
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Francis Schaeffer, The Flow of Materialism (transcript).
“Faith is weakness clinging to strength and becoming strong through so doing.”
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Best Strengthening Medicine
“Preachers must feed their congregations by teaching them the contents of the Bible because the contents of the Bible are life-giving words of God.”
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J.I. Packer, Elizabethan Puritans (transcript).
“Repentance is to allow Jesus to lay the axe to the root of the tree.”
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Zac Poonen, (Matthew) ch.2:23-4:7 (transcript).
“Prayer, and more prayer, adds to the fighting qualities and the more certain victories of God's good fighting men.”
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E. M. Bounds, Prayer and Vigilance
“When we are taken to heaven, we shall see God at once, with respect to the simplicity of His Being, as all that is in God, is God; but with respect to the immensity of His Being, it will be like sailing over an eternal sea, where every moment's sail we have a new horizon.”
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Thomas Goodwin, quoted in Anne Dutton, Glory Is Grace Made Perfect
“But such is the free grace of God towards me, through the slain Lamb, that He deals with me as a child, a dear child, and feasts me as a prince with Him according to the royalty, the dignity of His own infinite state.”
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Anne Dutton, Glad for Crumbs of Mercy
“Obedience to the Spirit of God is not to be measured by our success.”
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Art Katz, Acts 16 - Paul the Apostle (transcript).
“He who was one with the Father from all eternity, became man for our redemption, lived his holy, beautiful life here on earth.”
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Harry Ironside, Galatians 3:13 (transcript).
“the most powerful person in the world is the person who prays.”
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Jim Cymbala, The Position of Power (transcript).
“Forgetting the bitter and the pain of God's dealings, the only question of moment is, what is the cause and what the design of my Father in this?”
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Octavius Winslow, Evening Thoughts - June
“We must be warned that there is a very thin line between a passionate attachment to the Lord and a passionate self-confidence.”
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Conrad Mbewe, The Danger of Spiritual Self - Confidence (transcript).
“The whole New Testament, that of the epistles or letters as well as that of the gospels, rests on the foundation of historical events.”
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Herman Bavinck, The Divine and Human Nature of Christ (English translation).
“You can't keep God from loving you, but you can put up an umbrella. You can put up an umbrella of sin in your life, and you won't experience the love of God.”
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J. Vernon McGee, The Power of the Word of God (transcript).
“Names are not deserving of hatred: it is the unjust act that calls for penalty and punishment.”
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Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians, chapter 1 (B. P. Pratten translation).
“Let me not, then, wrong my own soul, by a causeless and sinful absence from thy sacred table!”
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Philip Doddridge, On Communion in the Lords Supper
“God starts in the church, and then others outside receive blessing, too.”