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    Ben Jennings
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    Every prayerless day is a statement by a helpless individual, ‘I do not need God today.’ Failing to pray reflects idolatry – a trust in substitutes for God. We rely on our money instead of God’s provi...

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    Max Lucado
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    When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our ef...

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    R.G. LeTourneau
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    I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

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    John Flavel
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    Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

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    Sinclair B. Ferguson
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    Christian contentment… is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal and the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with a provision...

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    Chris Seay
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    We need to take time to connect with the poor, resist our unceasing cravings, and pray. But we also need to gather with friends and family, share in God's good provision, eat delicious food, tell ...

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    Dallas Willard
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    [The beatitudes] serve to clarify Jesus' fundamental message: the free availability of God's rule and righteousness to all of humanity through reliance upon Jesus Himself... They do this simpl...

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    Bryan Chapell
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    John 15:5, Luke 18:9-14, John 15:1-8, Mark 10:17-27, Galatians 3:3, Ephesians 2:8-10
    Challenges to holiness without mention of grace force a human-centered religion. After all, people cannot do what they are told to do apart from Christ’s grace. That’s John 15:5, right? “Apart from me...

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    Jacques Philippe
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    There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts will never be sufficient on their own. Only the grace of Christ can win ...

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    Leonard Cohen
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    To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

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    John Calvin
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    There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purp...

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    Ambrose of Milan
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    James 5:3, Matthew 19:16-30, Mark 10:17-31, Luke 18:18-30
    A possession ought to belong to the possessor, not the possessor to the possession.

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    Samuel Johnson
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    Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

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    Louis Pasteur
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    Chance favors the prepared mind.

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    John Calvin
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    Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles – content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us...

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    Thomas A. Edison
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    Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

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    Charles Swindoll
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    Anything under God’s control is never out of control.

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    Shauna Niequist
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    I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honor...

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    James I. Packer
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    Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills a...

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    Jeff Van Duzer
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    Food that nourishes, roofs that hold out the rain, shade that protects from the heat of the sun. . . . the satisfaction of the material needs and desires of men and women . . . when businesses produce...

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    Deuteronomy 15:7, 11, Psalm 9:18, Psalm 41:21, 31, Proverbs 19:17, Proverbs 22:16, Mark 10:21, James 2:14-17, Matthew 19:21, Mark 12:43, Luke 18:22, Luke 21:1-3
    Hence, whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor.

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    Ellen F. Davis
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    The mystery I wish to explore…is this: vulnerability as the condition, the enabling condition, for covenant relationship with God…Vulnerability, the capacity to be wounded—what does that mean for us w...

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    Stephen Charnock
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    In every repetition of communion by presenting the sacrament God confirms his resolution to stick to his covenant; and by eating it the receiver commits himself to keep close to the condition of faith...

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    Millard Erickson
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    Inspiration presupposes a long process of God’s providential working with the author.

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    T. F. Torrance
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    Jesus Christ was not only the fulfillment and embodiment of God’s righteous and holy Act…, but also the embodiment of our act of faith and trust and obedience toward God.

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

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    Brian Fikkert and Kelly M. Kapic
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    Isaiah 58:1, 1 John 3:17
    Both the Old and New Testaments indicate that caring for the poor is one of the primary indicators of saving faith (Isa. 58:1–12; 1 John 3:17–18). Doing nothing is simply not an option for a follower ...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Revelation 21:2-4, Isaiah 25:6, Luke 13:18-19, Isaiah 55:1-2, Revelation 19:9
    They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than ...

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    George MacDonald
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    The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

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    Fred Craddock
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    Building anticipation into one's preaching simply calls for one basic understanding of the task of the pulpit: the goal is not to get something said but to get something heard.
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