Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
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I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.
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Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed I was merely to do something towards raising a flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by.
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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
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Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
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There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.
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I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.
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You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.
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My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
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We become, neurologically, what we think.
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Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will.
