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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.

Alexander MacLaren

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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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We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
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Don't waste your sorrows
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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.
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Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
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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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Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.
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All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
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That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.
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Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
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There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.
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God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.
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Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.
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The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?
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Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
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The grave has a door on its inner side.
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The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
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Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
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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 manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are perfected in love, is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.
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