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a half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth A Quest for Godliness (126)


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Prayer is always essential, but thought is essential, too, because prayer can be just an escape mechanism, almost at times a cry in the dark by people who are desperate and defeated. Prayer must be intelligent, and it is only to those who realize that their bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost that the answer will be given and the power will come.Spiritual Depression (173)


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I believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is.


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Prayer is the answer to the disease of self-confidence.


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One fervent prayer in secret will speak more for our sincerity than many in public.


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People treat God's sovereignty as a matter of controversy, but in Scripture it is a matter of worship.


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With a perversity as pathetic as it is impoverishing, we have become preoccupied today with the extraordinary, sporadic, non-universal ministries of the Spirit to the neglect of the ordinary, general ones. Knowing God (The Love of God, 130)


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If you could be brought once to love secret prayer, and to converse feelingly with God in his word, your heaven will begin on earth; you will enjoy more pleasure than in all manner of riches.


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Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be adoption through propitiation, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.


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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. N/A


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It is here, in the thing that happened after the first Christmas, that the profoundest and most unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. 'The Word became flesh' (Jn. 1:14); God became man; the divine Son became a Jew; the Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, unable to do more than lie and stare and wriggle and make noises, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. ... The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets.Knowing God


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Prayer must be fired with zeal and fervency.


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What is prayer? It is an offering up of our desires to God for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ.Ten Commandments, 239


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The Supper is rightly viewed as a means of grace. The efficacy of the sacraments ...resides not in the faith or virtue of the minister but in the faithfulness of God. As the preaching of the Word makes the gospel audible, so the sacraments make it visible, and the Holy Spirit stirs up faith by both means.


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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.


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Tom Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds, but Wright does more than that; he denies a crucial component of justification, namely imputation.


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I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.


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The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.


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Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.


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The New Testament word for "repentance" means changing one's mind so that one's views, values, goals, and ways are changed and one's whole life is lived differently. The change is radical, both inwardly and outwardly; mind and judgment, will and affections, behavior and lifestyle, motives and purposes, are all involved. Repenting means starting to live a new life.Concise Theology Section 60


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Jesus miraculous birth does in fact point to his deity and also to the reality of the creative power that operates in our new birth (John 1:13).Concise Theology, Section 41


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Calvary's saving power does not depend on faith being added to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it.


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The Christian's motto should not be 'Let go and let God' but 'Trust God and get going.


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A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.


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In goodness and sovereignty God permits evil, punishes evil with evil, brings good from evil and redeems from evil.


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