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God's word, if you don't use it, you'll lose it. If you don't apply it, you'll forget it. -
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If you understood Him, it would not be God. -
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Faith is a redirecting of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus. -
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One of the dangers of living in a constant state of distraction is that we never go to the bottom of our pain, our sadness, our emptiness, which means we never find that rock-bottom place of the peace... -
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The great principle dominating the composition of Scripture is that of the ascent towards discovery. -
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Another reason we are so tired is that we are always working hard to figure things out rather than learning how to cease striving, how to be with what is true in God’s presence and let God be God in t... -
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As fundamental a step as we can take . . . is learning to meditate on Scripture—learning first to hear God’s word, and let it inform and take root in us. This may be extremely difficult, for the churc... -
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When we cannot find the words to pray, we are not faithless. We are feeling the fact that we are both embodied and vulnerable. -
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Intellect is therefore a vital force in history, but it can also be a dissolvent and destructive power. Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional ... -
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Only one petition in the Lord’s Prayer has any condition attached to it; it is the petition for forgiveness. -
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -
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Rabbis spoke of parables as handles for understanding Torah; before parables no one understood the Torah, but when Solomon and others created parables, then people understood. -
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The Bible ceased to be a foreign book in a foreign tongue, and became naturalized, and hence far more clear and dear to the common people. Hereafter the Reformation depended no longer on the works of ... -
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“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.” -
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Don't criticize what you can't understand. -
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. -
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The search for knowledge can go wrong, not as a result of individual, erroneous judgments or of mistakes creeping in at different points, but because of one single mistake at the beginning… Faith does... -
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I believe in Christ and confess him not like some child; my hosanna has passed through an enormous furnace of doubt.
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