“To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.” YearsFirstsSpiritReligionJesusChristianityTeachFiveHolyEqualInspiredHoly SpiritGloriousRevelationsFive YearsFlashInwardIlluminationTheologicalSeminary Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.” FirstsReligionBrainHalfFiveTenBenefitsPriestsCommandmentsAdequateLameTen CommandmentsHalf Truth Book:To Sail Beyond the Sunset Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset
“Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.” PersonsI CanWisdomRealityReligionLostLosesJusticeHalfFiveGenerationsHuman NatureEthicsShadowStrategyIndividualityIdeologyThirtyOther Half Author:Vicky Beeching
“The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.” PeopleYearsCountryReligionFatherRaceFiveRocksOriginalsAncientJewAliensIndianThirtyFive YearsExceptionGatesContinentsPilgrimAmerican IndianColumbusAmsterdamAmericanismNewcomersPlymouthPlymouth Rock Book:The American Spirit Source: The American Spirit
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.” PeopleKnowsMenGivingTryingMeanLittlesDoeHas BeensIdeasMotivationalLyingReligionStrongHoursChristianityKnow HowFiveAtheismMinutesCurrentsObviousSillyTemptationGood PeopleTemptedFive MinutesBad PeopleWill PowerGiving InBadnessPower And ControlSelf PowerDiscipline And Self ControlResisting TemptationTemptation LifeSheltered Lives Author:C. S. Lewis