Category: preacher
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
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Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
Charles Spurgeon
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Solitude is very different from a ‘time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
Henri Nouwen
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell
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A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.
Charles Spurgeon
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We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.
Charles Spurgeon
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As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying ‘No’ to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.
Henri Nouwen
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I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.
Charles Spurgeon
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Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
Dalai Lama