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Inspirational Quotes
DIR By: Poppy
Date: April 17, 2015, 4:40 am
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> 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
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Re: Inspirational Quotes
DIR By: Poppy
Date: April 19, 2015, 7:06 am
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> 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
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Re: Inspirational Quotes
DIR By: Poppy
Date: April 25, 2015, 9:57 am
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> 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
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Re: Inspirational Quotes
DIR By: Poppy
Date: April 26, 2015, 8:15 am
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[center]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[/center]
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Re: Inspirational Quotes
DIR 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
DIR 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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