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“Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.”

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Saint Augustine, born on November 13, 354 in Tagaste, North Africa, and died on August 28, 430, was an influential Christian theologian, philosopher, and writer. He is considered one of the 'Fathers of the Church' and had a profound impact on Christian theology, philosophy, and Latin literature. His work 'Confessions' is a classic of Western literature, and his thoughts have had a lasting influence on Christian doctrine and Western culture. more

“The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.”

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Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.”

People Individual Christ Lonely Empty Warm Riches Selfish Transformed Happy People Slowly But Surely

Book:Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity

Source: Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity

“Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments, not in human intelligence, but in God.”

People Humans Circumstances Argument Human Intelligence

Author:Theodore Austin-Sparks

“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.”

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Book:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“Be still, and know that I am God. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. Some regard it as a kind of exhortation to us to be silent; but it is nothing of the sort. It means, 'Give up -or 'Give in' and admit I am God'. God is addressing people who are opposed to Him.”

People Knows Giving Kind Mean Stills Giving Up Regard Silent Sentimental

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?”

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Book:The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language

Source: The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

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Author:David Hume

“When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man.”

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Book:Art and the Bible

Source: Art and the Bible

“As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true.”

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Author:Francis Schaeffer

“All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.”

Form All Things Eternity Rounds Circles

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

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