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“Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.”

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Mel Torme

Mel Tormé, born on September 13, 1925, was an accomplished musician, singer, and composer from the United States. His musical career spanned across various genres, including jazz, pop, and classical music. Tormé was known for his distinctive voice and improvisational skills, with his signature songs including 'The Christmas Song' and 'Ain't Misbehavin'. His career was filled with notable achievements that have had a lasting impact on music. more

“The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.”

Men World Self Home Heaven Rooms Building Son Higher Worship Climbs Word Of God Idols Goddess Towers Dominion Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Contingency

Book:The works ...

Source: The works ...

“Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.”

Soul Eye Hours Compassion Watches Bears Absence Tenderness Everlasting One Hour

Book:Communion with God

Source: Communion with God

“Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.”

Soul Dies Christ Sin Blood Feet Sick Killing Lust Remedy Providence Sovereign Conqueror Mortification

Book:Temptation and Sin

Source: Temptation and Sin

“Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.”

Knows Looks Christ Prayer Duty Bears Holy Weak Add Believer Accepted Obedience Weed Imperfect Acceptable Iniquity Incense God's Presence

Author:John Owen

“I did not hear what I should have listened to.”

Should Should Have Should Have Listened

Book:Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity

Source: Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity

“No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.”

Men Doe Christ Glory Sight Hereafter

Book:THE GLORY OF CHRIST

Source: THE GLORY OF CHRIST

“The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.”

World Self Desire Heaven Christ Imagination Views This World Glory Deceiving

Book:Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ: In Two Parts. I. In His Person, Office, and Grace; with the Differences Between Faith and Sight: Applied Unto the Use of Them that Believe. II. The Application of the Same Meditations Unto Unconverted Sinners, and Saints Under Spiritual Decays

Source: Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ: In Two Parts. I. In His Person, Office, and Grace; with the Differences Between Faith and Sight: Applied Unto the Use of Them that Believe. II. The Application of the Same Meditations Unto Unconverted Sinners, and Saints Under Spiritual Decays

“In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.”

May Divine Scripture Swim Elephants Lambs Wade

Author:John Owen

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