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"We are saved by God's grace when we believe in Jesus and put our faith in him, bit biblical faith is mire than something we confess with ourr mouths; it's something we confess with our lives." pg. 104

"Authentic faith is not empty words; it is an experiental reality" p.45

"THe best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."--Albert Ellis, page 61.

"We have had human, soulish, psychical, natural religion so mixed in that it is a great task to come up into the worship of God in the pure spirit. It is the ramification of these human earthly conceptions that hinders the great power of God among us. Oh! God, deliver us from the earthly." --G. B. Cashwell, page 93

"Faith in Christ and love for His people are inseparable, and as one waxes or wanes so does the other. If my love for Christians is cooling (if I pray less for them and am less active in seeking to promote their highest good), my faith in Christ is declining." page 99.

"We have had human, soulish, psychical, natural religion so mixed in that it is a great task to come up into the worship of God in the pure spirit. It is the ramification of these human earthly conceptions that hinders the great power of God among us. Oh! God, deliver us from the earthly." --G. B. Cashwell, page 93

"Communion should be experienced as a 'sanctified letdown', in a sense, because every week that the church celebrates the Lord's Supper is another week that the kingdom and its feast have not yet fully arrived."---James K. A. Smith, page 67

"But holiness is not magic. Holiness is hard work. It's a choice to make the same decision that Jesus made when he was tempted. It's a choice to lean into God's Word. It's choice to draw near to God the Father. And it's a choice to allow him to transform your thinking." page 101