The Holy Spirit’s main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.
J. I. PACKERThe books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.
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Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
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Read two old books for every new one.
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But man’s eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God’s truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit’s work as a teacher.
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God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
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God’s overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
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There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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