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“He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.”

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German pastor, theologian, philosopher, and member of the resistance against the Nazis. Born on February 4, 1906, in Germany, he was executed on April 9, 1945 in a concentration camp. more

“Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything.”

Men Hands Earth Moving Interest Prayer Influence Effects Devil Angel All Things Eternity Lays Affair Defeat Ruins This Life Ministers Reaching Schemes Interfere

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.”

Two Church Two Things Fiery Insincerity

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come.”

Giving May Real Character Spiritual Form Language Prayer Lord Essence Breathe Holiness Spiritual Life Woe Foe Lungs Shrinks Real Character

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.”

Firsts Reason Earth Father Jesus Heaven Messages Compromise Sinner Father In Heaven Never Compromise

Author:Kirk Cameron

“We know that God disciplines His children, and that testing, suffering, and persecution come to us from Heaven to stretch, grow, and mature us into the men and women God intends to make us... If we keep this in mind when hard times fall, it can be a real source of joy in the fire.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Children Real Hard Joy Suffering Fall Heaven Grows Fire He Man Source Discipline Men And Women Hard Times Mature Persecution Testing

Author:Kirk Cameron

“Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, He had conferred on my beloved country in her emancipation and on myself in permitting me, under circumstances of mercy, to live to the age of 89 years, and to survive the fiftieth year of independence, adopted by Congress on the 4th of July 1776.”

“When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.”

Ifs Sometimes Suffering Attention Mystery Crosses Focused

Author:D. A. Carson

“When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.”

Thinking Use Holy Holy Life Alone With God

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

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