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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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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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Answer Christian Father
Read two old books for every new one.
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Book Old Read
The Holy Spirit’s main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.
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Character Give Ministry
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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Goal Mean Together
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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Know Love relief Tremendous
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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Eye Men Teacher
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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Father Scripture Son
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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Book Indirect Profound
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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Christian Father Sweet
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
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Incarnation Mystery New Testament
God’s overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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Glorify Goal Override
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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Church Humble Out Work

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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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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