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The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.

Alexander MacLaren

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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
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True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.
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There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
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The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God and to an innumerable company.
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He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.
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Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
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We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.
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Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.
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Logically, faith comes first, and love next but in life they will spring up together in the soul the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.
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The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.
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The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.
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The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.
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We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed emotions, the exercise of which makes gladness in the life here below, to transfer them to Him, and to rest safe in the Lord. Faith is trust.
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Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
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