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Inspirational Quotes
By: Poppy Date: April 17, 2015, 4:40 am
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[center][quote][font=andale mono]Many people think that the mark
of an authentic Christian is doctrinal purity; if a person’s
beliefs are biblical and doctrinally orthodox, then he is a
Christian. People who equate orthodoxy with authenticity find it
hard to even consider the possibility that, despite the
correctness of all their doctrinal positions, they may have
missed the deepest reality of the authentic Christian life. But
we must never forget that true Christianity is more than
teaching – it is a way of life. In fact, it is life itself. “He
who has the Son has life,” remember? When we talk about life, we
are talking about something that is far more than mere morality,
far more than doctrinal accuracy. Ray C
Stedman[/font][/quote][/center]
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Re: Inspirational Quotes
By: Poppy Date: April 19, 2015, 7:06 am
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[center][quote][font=andale mono]The beginning of love is the
will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the
resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving
them we do not love what they are, but only their potential
likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love
the reflection of ourselves we find in them Thomas
Merton[/font][/quote][/center]
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Re: Inspirational Quotes
By: Poppy Date: April 25, 2015, 9:57 am
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[center][quote][font=andale mono]I would say that a “dull
preacher” is a contradiction in terms; if he is dull he is not a
preacher. He may stand in a pulpit and talk, but he is certainly
not a preacher. Martyn Lloyd-Jones[/font][/quote][/center]
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Re: Inspirational Quotes
By: Poppy Date: April 26, 2015, 8:15 am
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[center][font=andale mono]You will not stroll into
Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door
open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one’s
leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much
to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows full and
interesting… It takes all one’s strength, and all one’s heart,
and all one’s mind, and all one’s soul, given freely and
recklessly and without restraint. This is a business for
adventurous spirits; others would shrink out of it. And so
Christ had a way of pulling up would-be recruits with sobering
and disconcerting questions, of meeting applicants – breathless
and panting in their eagerness – by asking them if they really
thought they had the grit, the stamina, the gallantry, required.
For many, He explained, begin, but quickly become cowed, and
slink away, leaving a thing unfinished as a pathetic monument of
their own lack of courage and of staying power. Arthur John
Gossip[/font][/center]
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Re: Inspirational Quotes
By: Poppy Date: May 8, 2015, 1:14 pm
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In all our duties, whether giving or praying, the great thing to
be kept in mind is, that we have a heart-searching and
all-knowing God. Everything like formality, being artificial, or
mere bodily service, is abominable and worthless in God’s sight.
He takes no account of the quantity of money we give, or the
quantity of words we use. The one thing at which His all-seeing
eye looks at is the nature of our motives, and the state of our
hearts. Our Father sees in secret J. C. Ryle
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Re: Inspirational Quotes
By: Poppy Date: May 15, 2015, 4:57 am
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The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold
men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much
humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which
prophets and martyrs are made. A. W. Tozer
As relevant to day as when Tozer first said it.
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