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B. B. Warfield15 quotes“A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE’S FRAGRANCE.”
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Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhere alluded to, that need be opposed to evolution.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must… declare it to be marvelously correct. Such has been the care with which the New Testament has been copied – a care which has doubtless grown out of true reverence for its holy words…. The New Testament is unrivaled among ancient writings in the purity of its test as actually transmitted and kept in use.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
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My heart keeps room for you always even when you can’t be here.
Holly DuxburyHolly Duxbury You are seeing humanity at its worst and best. A collision of the circumstance.
Samantha King HolmesSamantha King Holmes Treat her like a dream. Follow her, pursue her, and always remind her that you’ll never give up on her.
Jenny AJenny A I care but I’m done trying. I love but I’m done showing.
Divya khandalDivya khandal Never feel defined by your size, measures, and beauty standards.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson The wild is always changing like a reminder. You do not have to be the same to be beautiful.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Bees and butterflies in my belly with you on my mind they chase each other around.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh I long for you but you long for someone else, I deny the one who wants me cause I want someone else.
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My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’
Dave ChappelleDave Chappelle No artist that beefs with me or talks down on my name has that many platinum songs. They’re all gold.
Trippie ReddTrippie Redd It wasn’t necessary to speak on the recession, you know what I mean, but I just though it made a lot of sense. I was like, “okay, cool,” I’m going to go with this approach for the name of the album [ The Recession].
JeezyJeezy I want my first son to be called ‘Tommy.’ It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson
Louis TomlinsonLouis Tomlinson You don’t need to wear a strong scent, to make me feel your presence. I can hear your heart calling my name from miles away.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They’ll forget your name soon and won’t nobody be to blame but yourself.
Azealia BanksAzealia Banks If I could stitch these wounds with letters every scar would bear your name.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.
George MichaelGeorge Michael
