“Life is grandly simple when we reach that point, when the spirit of calculating results and consequences has been left behind and when God himself, and no mere experience, is our exceeding great reward.”
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“Oh, that we may learn to die to all that is of self with this royal joyfulness that swallows up death in victory in God’s world around! He can make every step of the path full of the triumph of gladness that glows in the golden leaves. Glory be to His Name!”
― Parables of the Cross
― Parables of the Cross
“Diagnostic words like “depression” are invitations, not destinations. Once you’ve spoken them, your travel with a person has begun, not ended.”
― Spurgeon's Sorrows: Realistic Hope for those who Suffer from Depression
― Spurgeon's Sorrows: Realistic Hope for those who Suffer from Depression
“Holiness means something more than the sweeping away of the old leaves of sin: it means the life of Jesus is developed in us.”
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“My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is now doing for me.”
― MORNING AND EVENING: DAILY READINGS
― MORNING AND EVENING: DAILY READINGS
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