Category: Archives
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Control Of The Tongue
We can never hear the warning often enough. The tongue may be small, but oh so deadly when not under the sanctifying grace of God. — Lin Pearson
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Longing After Immortality
It must be so–Plato, thou reasonest well!– Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? ‘Tis the divinity that stirs within us; ‘Tis heaven itself, that points out…
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The Fight For Liberty
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for…
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We Are More Than Conquerors
Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was…
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A Witness Is A Signpost
A good witness isn’t like a salesman, his emphasis is on a person rather than a product. A good witness is like a signpost. It doesn’t matter whether it is old, young, pretty, ugly; it has to point the right direction and be able to be understood. We are witnesses to Christ, we point to…
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Not Always Smooth Paths
God doesn’t always smooth the path, but sometimes he puts springs in the wagon. — Marshall Lucas
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Trust Him And Be His Friend
On days when life is difficult and I feel overwhelmed, as I do fairly often, it helps to remember in my prayers that all God requires of me is to trust Him and be His friend. I find I can do that. — Bruce Larson
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Setting Our Hearts On Freedom
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him. — A. W. Tozer
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Commanded Of Us
Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us. — John Owen
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Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful World as it…
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SAYINGS OF D. L. MOODY
SAYINGS OF D. L. MOODY A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility. Character is what you are in the dark. The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy. The tendency…
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Longing After Immortality
It must be so–Plato, thou reasonest well!– Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? ‘Tis the divinity that stirs within us; ‘Tis heaven itself, that points out…
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The Fight For Liberty
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for…
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We Are More Than Conquerors
Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was…
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A Witness Is A Signpost
A good witness isn’t like a salesman, his emphasis is on a person rather than a product. A good witness is like a signpost. It doesn’t matter whether it is old, young, pretty, ugly; it has to point the right direction and be able to be understood. We are witnesses to Christ, we point to…