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What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
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The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
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I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
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If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
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Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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