Great accomplishments are often attempted but only
occasionally reached. Those who reach them are
usually those who missed many times before.
Failures are only temporary tests to
prepare us for permanent triumphs.
--Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
(In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Faith")
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up.
When you speak of hell, well, then your everyday
face will do.
--C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892),
_Lectures To My Students_ [1860]
We need to grow thus healthily independent of human
judgment; for he who fawns for smiles, or trembles
at frowns, will never lead a noble life for long.
--C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 35 [1889]
None but those whose minds have been raised above the world by a taste of heavenly life really experience this perpetual and uninterrupted manifestation of the divine favour, which enables them to bear their chastisements with cheerfulness ~ John Calvin.
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Contrary to the message of our culture and the teaching of many in the church, Jesus does not put 'self' in front of actualisation but in front of denial. We will never become our trues selves unless we yield our all to him. We lose life to gain it.- Sam Allberry
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