Sweet Quotes That Help Me Grow Closer To King Jesus 17…
Repentance is like antiseptic.
You pour antiseptic onto a wound
and, at first, it stings.
Then it heals.
Tim Keller
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God did not give us the book of Revelation
so that we’d build bomb shelters in the back yard.
He gave us this book
so that we’d build bigger dinner tables
and invite our friends over and tell them about Jesus.
T.J. Tims
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True Christianity will cost a man the favor of the world.
He must be content to be thought ill of by man
if he pleases God.
He must count it no strange thing
to be mocked, ridiculed, slandered, persecuted and even hated.
J.C. Ryle
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Getting the unbelieving world
to approve of the Church
was never, ever the goal.
And it’s a losing game,
one that has already cost us much.
Jared C. Wilson
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My first recollections of anything of a religious nature
occurred at the age of fifteen years (around 1959).
I remember coming downstairs in the night for a glass of water
and almost tripping over my father
who was on his knees in prayer
pleading for mercy.
I do not think he even noticed me,
so intense were his pleadings.
This instance had a profound effect upon me,
making me realise that there was perhaps something real
in the things I heard from the pulpit
Lord’s day by Lord’s day at the chapel.
Robert Cecil Rayner
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If it were possible for me to alter
any part of God’s plan —
I would only spoil it.
John Newton
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A Christian is not of hasty growth,
like a mushroom –
but rather like the oak,
the progress of which is hardly perceptible.
John Newton
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We are half-hearted creatures,
fooling about with
drink & sex & ambition
when infinite joy is offered us,
like an ignorant child
who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum
because he can’t imagine what is meant
by the offer of a holiday at the sea.
We are far too easily pleased…
C.S. Lewis
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If you do not die to sin,
you shall die for sin.
If you do not slay sin,
sin will slay you.
Charles Spurgeon
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God seeks our worship,
not because it meets his need,
but because it meets our need.
John Piper
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The cross is not really an ornament.
The cross is a reality,
as it stands at the center point
of the Christian message.
Erwin Lutzer
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A man can no more diminish God’s glory
by refusing to worship Him
than a lunatic can put out the sun
by scribbling the word ‘darkness’
on the walls of his cell.
C.S. Lewis
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Jesus is mine! I’m now prepared
To meet with what I thought most hard;
Yes, let the winds of trouble blow
And comforts melt away like snow:
No blasted trees or failing crops
Can hinder my eternal hopes;
Though creatures change the Lord’s the same;
Then let me triumph in his name.
John Newton
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You should always look at yourself and think,
“I can’t believe I’m a Christian.”
If you’re a Christian,
it’s a miracle.
Tim Keller
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The gospel is good news,
not good advice.
Tim Keller
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A scared world
needs a fearless church.
A.W. Tozer
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Do little things as though they were great,
because of the majesty of Jesus Christ
who does them in us.
Blaise Pascal
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Prayer is the recognition that you are not God.
Daniel Darling
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Anxiety is a daily fax to God saying,
“I don’t think You have my best interests in mind.”
Tim Keller
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God writes with a pen that never blots,
speaks with a tongue that never slips,
acts with a hand that never fails.
Charles Spurgeon
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This is the holy reasoning of love:
it draws no license from grace,
but rather feels the constraints of gratitude
leading it to holiness.
Charles Spurgeon
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No short cut exists
for a deeper spiritual life.
The man who would know God
must give time to Him.
A.W. Tozer
.
There are some ministers for whom
preaching consists far more
of an analysis of soils
than of a sowing of seed.
Charles Spurgeon
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I am afraid that we sometimes preach
smooth things,
too soothing and agreeable,
and that we do not set before men
their real danger.
Charles Spurgeon
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I need to be made willing to be forgotten.
O! I wish that my heart were quite refined
from all self-seeking.
Robert Murray McCheyne
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Worry shows up
whenever my view of God
is diminished
and my view of myself
gets too big.
Trevin Wax
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What we believe about the future
is one of the best predictions
for how we act today.
Tim Keller
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If each spouse says to the other,
“I will treat my selfishness
as the main problem in the marriage,”
you have the prospect for great things.
Tim Keller
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Today I visited Golgotha and Jesus’ tomb.
I searched it thoroughly.
It was empty.
Nathan Rose
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The only cure for man’s sinful condition
is a heart transplant
carried out by the Great Physician. (Ezekiel 36:26)
Charles Spurgeon
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We do not serve a frustrated, confused deity.
God’s options are more than we could ever count.
Erwin Lutzer
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The parent who tries to train
without setting a good example
is building with one hand,
and pulling down with the other.
J.C. Ryle
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Our circumstances
are the means of manifesting
how wonderfully perfect
and extraordinarily pure
the Son of God is.
Oswald Chambers
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Tony Nolan
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Is there any pleasure on earth
as great as a circle of Christian friends
by a good fire?
C.S. Lewis
