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• The Gospel has to be the norm.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Gospel
  • Norm

• If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Men
  • Lord

• Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Mind
  • Inspiration
  • Gospel

• The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Understand

• When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Gospel
  • Stake

• The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Alone

• Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Church
  • Gospel
  • Mission

• Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems. We may make the occasional mistake, but as long as we are following gospel principles and guidelines, we can learn from those mistakes and become more understanding of others and more effective in serving them.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Long
  • May
  • Freedom

• A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Truth

• Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Beautiful
  • Jesus
  • Storm

• No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Life
  • Service
  • Christianity

• We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Church

• Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Nature
  • Developed
  • Illnesses

• Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

  

  Aristotle
  • Skills
  • Developed
  • Practical

• The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • History
  • Developed
  • Human Race

• The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Light
  • Gospel
  • Forces

• The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Gospel
  • Irresistible

• This time around was different. Daron brought a song in and we had to record it the next day. I just wasn't about it and I didn't do it perfectly. It took some time, or I wanted to play it a different way and the song had not been developed yet. I had to get it. It was more work-oriented and less about a vibe and art.

  

  Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian Achozen
  • Song
  • Record
  • Next

• Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of course he's influenced me, but I think I've also developed my own sound. He's also been really good about giving me advice, which I think has helped me really stay true to what I want to do musically.

  

  Alexa Ray Joel
  • Music
  • Piano
  • Developed

• Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Blind

• ....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

  

  Edward Bunker
  • Developed
  • Hotels
  • Apartments

• Justin’s Logos Christology is more advanced and philosophically developed than that found in the Fourth Gospel.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Gospel
  • Developed
  • Christology