John Milton Quotes

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

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• I came to Christ in my early 20s.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
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• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

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• Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This charity is essential in missionary work, but we must never allow ourselves to treat our neighbors only as potential converts. We have had the sad experience of seeing members of the Church who attempted to convert their neighbors and friends and, when they did not respond, withdrew their friendship and neighborliness. We must not be so anxious to share the gospel that we become insensitive to the feelings of others.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
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• The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
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• Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
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• Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.

  

  R. A. Torrey
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• If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

  

  R. A. Torrey
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• Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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  • Not Believe

• There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
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  • Forth

• Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Change
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• If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Believe
  • Believed

• We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

  

  John Milton
  • Christ
  • Forth
  • Exercised