“Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.”
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“If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.”
― Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
― Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”
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“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
― The Cost of Discipleship
― The Cost of Discipleship
“A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.”
― Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
― Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
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