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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The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.
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Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.
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'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
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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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I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.
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Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.
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God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
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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
