“My dear friends, from the devil's standpoint there is not the slightest difference between being puffed up with pride in yourself or spending the whole of your time condemning yourself. Either way the devil is very well-pleased. Any concentration upon self in any shape or form is of the devil.”
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“We have to be poor in spirit before we can be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
― Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
― Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
“That is the only way to understand rightly this picture of the false prophets. The false prophet is a man who has no `strait gate' or `narrow way' in his gospel. He has nothing which is offensive to the natural man; he pleases all.”
― Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
― Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
“The primary task of the Church and of the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God.”
― Preaching and Preachers
― Preaching and Preachers
“The Gestapo chief leaned forward. I'd like to send you home, old fellow," he said. "I'll take your word that you won't cause any more trouble."
I could not see father's face, only the erect carriage of his shoulders and the halo of white hair above them. But I heard his answer.
"If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.”
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
I could not see father's face, only the erect carriage of his shoulders and the halo of white hair above them. But I heard his answer.
"If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.”
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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