Quotes
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We will find in the Bible only as much as we are looking for: Great things and divine things if we look for great and divine things, important and historical things if we look for important and historical things, nothing at all if we do not look for anything at all. -Karl Barth, Theologian
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“Sacrilege is defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But the worst kind of sacrilege is taking something and giving it to God when it means absolutely nothing to you.” G. Campbell Morgan
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“Paul’s exhortation to ‘do all to the glory of God’ is more than pious idealism. It is an integral part of the sacred revelation and is to be accepted as the very Word of Truth. It opens before us the possibility of making every act of our lives contribute to the glory of God. Lest…
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“All our heartaches and a great many of our physical ills spring directly out of our sins. Pride, arrogance, resentfulness, evil imaginings, malice, greed: these are the sources of more human pain than all the diseases that ever afflicted mortal flesh.” (p110) “The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of…
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“We are right when and only when we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.” (p101) “‘Be thou exalted’ is the language of victorious spiritual experience. It is a little key to unlock the door to great treasures…
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“Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.” (p89) “Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.” (p90) “It would be like God to make the most vital thing easy and place it within the range of possibility for the weakest and poorest…
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“Whoever will listen will hear the speaking Heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion.” (p80) “The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God’s continuous speech.” (p82) -AW Tozer The Pursuit of God
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“The truth is that while God dwells in His world He is separated from it by a gulf forever impassable. However closely He may be identified with the work of His hands they are and must eternally be other than He, and He is and must be antecedent to and independent of them. He is…
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“The Bible assumes as a self-evident fact that men can know God with at least the same degree of immediacy as they know any other person or thing that comes with the field of their experience.” (p50) “At the root of the Christian life lies belief in the invisible. The object of the Christian’s faith…
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“That type of Christianity which happens now to be the vogue knows this Presence only in theory. It fails to stress the Christian’s privilege of present realization.” (p37) “He has discovered Himself to some extent in nature, but more perfectly in the Incarnation; now He waits to show Himself in ravishing fullness to the humble…
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“The pronouns ‘my’ and ‘mine’ look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology ever could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into…
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“The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of the impulse is our following hard after Him, and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand.” (p11-12) “To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied…
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“The figure of the tent suggests the idea of constant vicissitudes and humility. I fear that splendid edifices have been the greatest curse of the church. ‘Enlarge the place of your tent.’ He does not say build a temple.” (p158) “This is the secret of successful work: to know Christ in this blissful and intimate…
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“We do not grow into sanctification. Rather, we grow from sanctification into maturity.” (p141) “While it is true that all the resources are divinely provided, this does not justify a spirit of passive negligence on our part. There is to be no languid leaning on God’s grace, no dreamy fatalism based on His almight purpose…
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“Lifting our sinking form as a mother would life her tiny infant, He bids us no longer stand even in His help. That is what it means to go from strength to strength – from our own strength to His increased strength and on to the absolute all-sufficiency of God Himself!” (p113) “This strength is…
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“Redemption, therefore, is not merely the restoration of Adamic holiness, happiness and honour. It is the uniting of man with the Son of God and the exalting of the redeemed sinner to fellowship with a higher Being.” (p105) -AB Simpson A Larger Christian Life, “Grace Abounding”
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“When God allows the enemy to appear in our lives, it is that we may do him irreparable and eternal injury, thus glorifying God!” (p86) “the battle will bring us benefits and contribute to our own and the Master’s cause.” (p87) “The richest treasure of your life is held by Satan. He is too shrewd…
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“Self-will mars our work for God and tries to force the chariots of God’s power and grace upon our own sidetracks.” (p78) “The church of Christ is no autocracy where one man can be a dictator or judge, but a fellowship where One alone is Master.” (p80) “The love of Jesus is the divinely appointed…
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“Nothing so thoroughly sweeps away the littleness of our concepts of God, the pettiness of our faith or the narrowness of our love, like a steady gaze into His face!” (p63) – AB Simpson A Larger Christian Life, “The Larger Life”
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“Fill Full (Gk: Plaroo), so full that there will be no space left empty.” (p35) “This filling is connected with a living Person. We are not filled with an influence, a sensation, a set of ideas and truths or a blessing. We are filled with a Person.” (p35) “To be filled with Christ is not…
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