Tag: Quotes
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Revisiting Holiness part 3
This is the third in a series of posts about holiness. First post||Second Post For a long time, holiness was a negative term for me because I always saw it as restrictive, difficult, and ineffective to the goals I had for my spiritual life. I wanted joy and I wanted love. Actually, I didn’t really…
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Transformation of the Heart
People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, "If you keep a lot of rules, I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing." I do not think that is the best way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time…
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Some William Temple Quotes
Found these and thought I would share ;) The worst things that happen do not happen because a few people are monstrously wicket, but because most people are like us. The test of our belief is always in our practice. There is the first thing – the bringing of the inner life under the control…
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Simplicity on the Naive Side of Complexity
Many Christians have settled for the simplicity on the naïve side of complexity. They do not want to be disturbed by issues that unsettle the status quo and deny them their passions and pleasures. They repeat the elementary truths of the faith over and over again, with little movement toward maturity. In the face…
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On Failure
It happens very often that one tries to do something and fails. He feels discouraged, and yet he may discover years afterward that the very effort he made was the reason why somebody else took it up and succeeded. I really believe that whatever use I have been to progressive civilization has been accomplished…