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Love is the foundation of all obedience.
Alexander MacLaren
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Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.
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Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'
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The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
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The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us they only hear about Jesus Christ.
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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
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If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.
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Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him.
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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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Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. Large or small are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.
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Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.
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Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.
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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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And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.
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The cross is the centre of the world's history the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history
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Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.
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Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
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A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.
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Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong and the epitaph for the sinner is, Thou fool!
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Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
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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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