Christianity Quotes - Page 35

• Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

  William Blake

  Art, Money, Curse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education

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• The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

  Peter Forsyth

  Wrath, Blood, Sins Not

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• He who would pray, must obey.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1929). “The Necessity of Prayer”, p.139, Fig

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• Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!

  John Flavel

  Hate, Heart, Long

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• Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

  George Whitefield

  Heart, Christ

  George Whitefield, Samuel Dres, Joseph Smith (1841). “Sermons on important subjects”, p.269

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• The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Fear, Views

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• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Perseverance, Jesus, Prayer

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.41, CCEL

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• Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

  Charles Spurgeon

  Woe, Fit, Preaching

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

  David Bryant

  Church, Missionary, Causes

  David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”

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• It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.

  John Owen

  Soul, Glorify

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• It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Doubt, May

  "The Root of the Righteous". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1955.

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• Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Grace, Monsters

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• Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Soul

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.184, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Holiness, Praying, Salvation

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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• When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mind, Holy, Filled

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.179, Editora Dracaena

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• Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

  Martin Luther

  Use, Scripture, Spirit

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

  Matthew Henry

  Heart, Charity, Excuse

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1839). “The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation”, p.54

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• The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

  William Cameron Townsend

  Mother, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Trifles

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• 'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Strong, Waiting, Down And

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• It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others.

  James Madison

  Order, Rights, Doubt

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• And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Darkness, Church, Foundation

  Joseph Smith (Jr.) (1876). “The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing the Revelations”, p.74

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• The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.

  Robbie Savage

  Christian, Prayer, Missionary

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• While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Lying, Burden Of Proof, Darkness

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• Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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