William Burkitt Quotes
That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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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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The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
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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.
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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
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The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
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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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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.
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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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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.
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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.
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Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?
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A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.
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Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.
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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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In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.
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But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.
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I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire,” Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. “If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.” “Nice,” Shane said. “I’m warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey.” “No, you’re not.” “Okay, no, I’m not, but right now let’s pretend I am.
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I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him
