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Holiness
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"Every
man is as holy as he really wants to be."
Man: the
Dwelling Place of God, 40
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"What does this word holiness
really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have
shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness--
a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral
blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive,
white intensity of degree."
I Call it Heresy, 63
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Holiness of God
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"We cannot grasp the true meaning
of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and
then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of.
God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered.
We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique,
unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man
is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but
His holiness he cannot even imagine."
The Knowledge of the Holy, 111.
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Hymnal
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"After the Bible the next most
valuable book for the Christian is a good hymnal. Let any
young Christian spend a year prayerfully meditating on the hymns of Watts
and Wesley alone and he will become a fine theologian. Then let him
read a balanced diet of the Puritans and the Christian mystics. The
results will be more wonderful than he could have dreamed."
Man: The Dwelling Place of God,
150-151.
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Important people?
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"I Thank God that the kingdom
of God is not divided into areas for big, important people and areas for
little, unimportant people. Every one is just as needful in God's
sight as any other!"
"Who Put Jesus On the Cross",
161
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Intimacy with God
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God formed
us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we as well as He can in divine
communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities.
He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile.
The Pursuit
of God, p. 34.
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Judgement
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"I think that most Christians
would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal
affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, keep them happy
and take them to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their
conduct or service. But He has searched us and known us; He
knows our downsitting and our uprising and understands our thoughts afar
off. There is no place to hide from those eyes that are as a flame
of fire and there is no way to escape from the Judgment of those feet that
are like fine brass. It is the part of wisdom to live with these
things in mind."
That Incredible Christian, 105-106.
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Knowing God
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"If God is the Supreme good
then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly
as possible."
That Incredible Christian, 65
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Leadership
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History will show that the church
has prospered most when blessed with strong leaders and suffered the greatest
decline when her leaders were weak and time serving. The sheep rarely go
much farther than the shepherd.
The Warfare of the Spirit, 191-192
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Listening to God
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"When I am praying the most
eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life.
But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up
and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with
such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on
what God is saying to my heart."
Success and the Christian, 46-47
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Narrow minded
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"One of
the Most stinging criticisms made against Christians is that their minds
are narrow and their hearts small."
The Root
of the Righteous, 113.
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Negative Thinking
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"Too many of our religious convictions
are negative. We act not from a positive conviction that something
is right, but from a feeling that the opposite is wrong."
-- Of God and Men, 94. --
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Obedience
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"The man that believes will
obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present.
To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and
He gives faith to the obedient heart only."
Man the Dwelling Place of God,
33.
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Let a man set his heart only
on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.
The Root of the Righteous, 129.
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