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    Teresa of Avila
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    Exodus 25:8, Ezekiel 36:26-27, Jeremiah 29:13, John 14:23, Psalm 139:23-24
    Believe the incredible truth that the Beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all of creation.

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    S. D. Gordon
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    John 1:14, Hebrews 1:1-3, Colossians 1:15, John 14:8-9, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Matthew 11:27
    Jesus was God spelling himself out in language humanity could understand.

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    John of Damascus
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    Isaiah 9:6, John 14:9, Colossians 2:9, Hebrews 1:3, 1 Timothy 3:16
    In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter; I...

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    Karl Barth
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    Isaiah 6:1-5, Genesis 3:8-10 , Romans 5:6-8 , Ephesians 2:4-5, John 14:6, Psalm 8:3-4
    On the one side there is God in His glory as Creator and Lord. . . . And on the other side there is man, not merely the creature, but the sinner, the one who exists in the flesh and who in the flesh i...

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    Oswald Chambers
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    John 14:6, Colossians 1:19-20, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Luke 15:11-32, Romans 5:10, Ephesians 2:13, Hebrews 10:19-22
    Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

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    Thomas Oden
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    Colossians 2:2-3, John 7:46, Matthew 22:15-22, Luke 2:46-47, John 8:58, John 14:6, Matthew 7:28-29
    It becomes difficult if not impossible to build a plausible Christology out of a naive, mistaken, hapless, or ignorant Jesus.

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    Richard John Neuhaus
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    2 Corinthians 4:6, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 11:27, 1 Timothy 3:16, John 14:9, Hebrews 1:1-2
    Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what...

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    Karl Barth
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    Acts 7:54-60, Psalm 23:4, Acts 2:1-4, John 14:26, Luke 15:11-32, Romans 5:8
    In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lord who is before him, above him, after him, and thence also with him in history, the locus of man...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    John 1:14, Hebrews 11:10, John 14:2-3, Psalm 90:1, Hebrews 13:14, Luke 2:1-10
    Home shall men come To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome. To the end of the way of the wandering star; To the things that cannot be and that are, To the place where God was homeless...

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    Meister Eckhart
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    2 Corinthians 5:17, Colossians 1:27, Romans 8:10, 1 John 3:24, John 14:20, Galatians 2:20
    He who abides always in a present now, in him doth God beget His Son without ceasing.

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    Sinclair B. Ferguson
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    John 14:21
    Unless God is our Father, we are orphans. But God’s own Son has become our Older Brother. He comes through His Spirit, with His Father, to live with us. The Holy Spirit dwells in our lives, making us ...

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    John Ortberg
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    Ezekiel 36:26-27, Matthew 28:19-20, John 14:15-21, James 1:27, Ephesians 2:10, Isaiah 61:1
    The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!

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    Richard J. Foster
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    Ephesians 2:17-18, Revelation 22:17, Acts 10:34-35, John 14:6, Galatians 3:28
    It is not that God’s kingdom of love did not exist before Jesus, or that it had been postponed somehow. No. But before the incarnation its availability had, in the nature of things, been restricted an...

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    N. T. Wright
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    1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Corinthians 3:16, Ephesians 2:21-22, 1 Peter 2:5, John 14:23
    Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

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    Richard Halverson
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    Acts 2:42-47, 1 Corinthians 1:9, 1 Timothy 3:1-13, 1 John 1:3, Acts 17:16-34, Romans 12:4-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, John 14:6, Matthew 16:18
    In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centered on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece, where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome, where it became an in...

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    H. W. Robinson
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    James 1:22, Matthew 26:36-46, Genesis 22:1-19, Romans 12:1-2, John 14:15, 1 Samuel 15:22, Deuteronomy 6:4-5
    This is salvation in the deeper and more spiritual sense of the Old Testament. . . . But even in the religion of the Law, . . . obedience to the revealed will of Yahweh is recognized as the supreme en...

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    Randy Alcorn
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    John 14:9, Hebrews 1:3, Matthew 5:16, Matthew 17:1-8, Acts 4:13, Galatians 1:23-24, Colossians 1:15
    People had only to look at Jesus to see what God is like. People today should only have to look at us to see what Jesus is like.

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    T. F. Torrance
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    John 1:18, John 6:46, Philippians 2:5-8, 1 Timothy 3:16, John 14:9, John 1:1-5, John 10:30, John 12:44-46, Colossians 1:15-20, Hebrews 1:
    There is thus no God behind the back of Jesus Christ but only this God whose face we see in the face of the Lord Jesus. There is no deus absconditus , no dark inscrutable God, no arbitrary Deity ...

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    Andrew Murray
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    John 14:26, John 16:12-15, Lamentations 3:21-23, Deuteronomy 8:2, Psalm 77:11-12, John 14:26
    Memory is one of the highest powers in our nature. By it day is linked to day, the unity of life through all our years is kept up, and we know that we are still ourselves. In the spiritual life, recol...

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    Heinrich Weinel and Alban G. Widgery
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    Genesis 1:1 & 1:31, Genesis 14:18–20, Isaiah 55:6–7, John 14:6, Acts 10:1–4, 34–35, Psalm 19:1–2
    To some God and Jesus may appeal in a way other than to us: some may come to faith in God and to love, without a conscious attachment to Jesus. Both Nature and good men besides Jesus may lead us to Go...

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    Susan Hunt
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    Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18, John 14:15
    When God’s grace changes our status from rebel to redeemed, we are empowered by his Spirit to obey him. We are transformed by the renewing of our minds (Rom. 12:2) into his likeness (2 Cor. 3:18). Joy...

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    James I. Packer
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    Galatians 5:22-23, Romans 8:9, Ephesians 3:16-17, John 14:16-17, Acts 1:8, 1 Corinthians 2:12-13, 2 Corinthians 3:17-18
    The Christian’s life in all its aspects—intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness—is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    John 6:68, Matthew 7:28-29, Mark 12:29-31, Matthew 5:7, John 14:6, Matthew 16:15-16, John 18:33-38
    The discrepancy between the depth and sanity, and (let me add) shrewdness, of his moral teaching and the rampant megalomania which must lie behind his theological teaching unless he is indeed God, has...

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    Joshua Jipp
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    Romans 12:1, Matthew 22:37-38, James 2:14-17, John 14:15, Luke 9:23, Philippians 2:5-8, Romans 10:9-10, Psalm 1:1-6
    New Testament theology is ‘inherently self-involving as it summons the reader to believe, confess, obey, and understand the entirety of one’s existence—both her or his thinking and willing—in light of...

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    Mark McIntosh
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    John 14:16-21, John 14:26, John 16:13-15, Romans 8:, Acts 1:4, 1 Thessalonians 1:5-6, Ephesians 3:16-17
    The Spirit of truth guides Jesus’s followers by conducting them farther and farther, beyond their present capacities, into the fullness of the Father’s life, which is given away to Jesus and through J...

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    Alvin Plantinga
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    Hebrews 11:1, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 10:17, 1 Corinthians 2:12-14, John 14:26
    Now faith is not just a cognitive affair: its being “sealed upon our hearts” is a matter of will and affect; it is a repair of the madness of the will that is at the heart of sin. Still, it is at leas...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    John 14:26, John 14:15-17, John 16:12-15, 1 Corinthians 2:10-16, Ephesians 3:16-19, Isaiah 11:2, Romans 8:5-6
    O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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    Pope Francis
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    1 Corinthians 2:14, Romans 8:14, John 14:26, 1 Corinthians 2:10-12, John 16:13
    We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or — in the words of Our ...

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    Anthony Anaxagorou
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    John 3:16, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 23:39-43, John 14:6, Romans 6:23
    A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself.

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Luke 2:7, Matthew 8:20, Isaiah 52:2-3, Hebrews 13:2, John 14:2-3, Micah 5:2
    Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
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