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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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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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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Oh, god, where's the fuckin' bottle, you fuckin' whore?! DID HE FUCK YOU WITH THIS TOO?! Yes- OH, SHUT UP!!! HE DID EVERYTHING TO YOU, OH, GOD!!!!
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There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
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You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
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If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.
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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.
