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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

• Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

  

  Elisabeth Marbury
  • My Life
  • Blessings
  • Developed

• Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Lost
  • Health

• If you don’t want to deal with that, don’t dress so loud,’ but it’s about the way I felt. It was really important to me as a young queer person to express myself artistically and wear makeup and live my life, even if people confused me for a girl and I got my ass kicked. As long as I looked pretty, I felt important.

  

  Adore Delano
  • Important
  • Makeup
  • Express

• There is something about that burning of all those letters that gives me pause: why should everything be made clear and be brought into the light? Why keep things, archive your intimacies? Why not let thirty years of shared conversation go spiralling in ash up into the air of Tunbridge Wells? Just because you have it does not mean you have to pass it on. Losing things can something gain you a space in which to live.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Light
  • Conversation
  • Burning

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

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Gospel
  • Developed
  • Christology