Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency … - John Stott

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My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

John Stott

Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture.

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The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

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Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

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Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

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The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.

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For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.

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No one nor anything can silence me.

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