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Literary Historian Inspirational Quotes (5894)

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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
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It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
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No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
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If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.
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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism we died with Christ and rose to new life.
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