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For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather ...

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But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. ...

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The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian moral...

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The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exist...

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The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and e...

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A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from th...

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... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mort...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence o...

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There is something about saying, ‘We always do this,’ which helps keep the years together. Time is s...

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I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of lov...

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What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy gra...

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All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may...

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I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard wo...

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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of...

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It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’v...

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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, an...

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God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a pass...

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But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

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John Piper (artist)Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of...

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It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’v...

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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, an...

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God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a pass...

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But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

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John Piper (artist)Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of...

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It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’v...

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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, an...

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God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a pass...

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But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

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John Piper (theologian)Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of...

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It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’v...

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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, an...

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God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a pass...

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But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, a...

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I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

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John Piper (theologian)Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you ca...

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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and pl...

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In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold o...

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Jonathan Edwards (theologian)Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions: And Advice to Young Converts

As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture...

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We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set in...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present your...

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The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good...

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Christ want to point this out and to warn His followers that in the world everyone should live as th...

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Martin LutherSermon on the Mount and the Magnificat

Create a trophy room in your heart. Each time you experience a victory, place a memory on the shelf....

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Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquenc...

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Max LucadoCast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God

Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.

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Max LucadoCast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just...

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Max LucadoExperiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch...

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Max LucadoExperiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and t...

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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of p...

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your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times ...

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I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of...

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As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know ...

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Stanley HauerwasHannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attem...

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He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, drea...

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If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord,For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat g...

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Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

If we were less of what seems like ease in our lives they would tell more for Christ and souls...We ...

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The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that w...

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Strength of my heart, I need not fail,Not mind to fear but to obey,With such a Leader, who could qua...

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We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: p...

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And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,Until it be according unto mine?But, no, Lord, no, ...

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All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far...

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to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes whe...

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There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are ...

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Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how ...

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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down o...

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The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly in...

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It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We...

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If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, a...

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O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose,My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill,Fair is Thy...

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...Cast yourself upon, abandon yourself to this Christ who lived that life of utter surrender to God...

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