“Do not enter the ministry if you can help it . . .If any student in this room could be content to bea newspaper editor, or a grocer, or a farmer, or adoctor, or a lawyer, or a senator, or a king, in thename of heaven and earth let him go his way; he isnot the man in whom dwells the Spirit of God inits fullness, for a man so full of God would utterlyweary of any pursuit but that for which his inmostsoul pants.””
“it is possible for you to have real faith, and yet to have the most grievous unbelief! "Oh!" say you, "how can faith and unbelief live together?" They cannot live together in peace, but they may dwell together in the same heart. Remember what our Lord Jesus said to Peter "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" He did not say, "O thou of no faith," but "of little faith." Thus there was some faith, though there was also much doubt. So, in the psalmist, there was some faith,”
“there is one subject which we never hear too much of: we can never hear too much of Christ. When ministers are wearied of preaching Him, they are false ministers: when people are wearied of hearing of Him, their souls are in an unhealthy state. When ministers have preached Him all their lives, the half of His excellence will remain untold. When hearers see Him face to face in the day of His appearing, they will find there was more in Him than their hearts ever conceived.””
“In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. They hid out in the forest, preserving their freedom by moving from place to place; in what Balée calls “agricultural regression,” these hunted peoples necessarily gave up farming and kept body and soul together by foraging.””
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“The second is the Word of God used in the life to affect all its parts (notice that soul, spirit, body, and heart are all mentioned in Heb. 4:12).””
“Brother, Sister, is there a rival in your heart? Do you allow anyone to come in between you and the “Altogether Lovely”? If so, chase the intruder out! Christ must have all your heart and let me tell you, the more we love Him, the more bliss we shall have. A soul that is altogether given up to the love of Christ lives above care and sorrow. It has care and sorrow, but the love of Christ kills all the bitterness by its inexpressible sweetness! I cannot tell you how near a man may live to Heaven, but I am persuaded that a very large proportion of the bliss of Heaven may be enjoyed before we go there. There is one conduit pipe through which heavenly joy will flow and if you draw from it, you may have as much as you will.””
“Hunt managed to sell only a few of his captives before local Roman Catholic priests seized the rest”
“To borrow the words of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the great French churchman, '[How] can we claim to be Christians when we continue to live like pagans?' But we're often worse than pagans. True pagans had a reverence for nature and the gods. Today we worship ourselves and our tools. That sin defaces the world. It also kills our ability to see things as they really are. Simple blades of grass in heaven cause the visiting souls from hell so much pain in C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce because they're too real to bear for creatures made unreal by their own delusions. Consumer culture - the world we live in every day - is deeply ani-Christian not just in its gluttony and its exclusion of the needs of others, but also in its damage to the mature, self-thinking self.””
“Both Hubbertians and McKelveyans agree that an oil reserve is a physical stock: a finite pool of hydrocarbon molecules. To Hubbertians, the implication is clear: pump out too much and you will eventually empty it. How long you can pump depends primarily on the size of the pool. To McKelveyans, though, what matters most is not the size of the pool, but the capacity of the pump. The reason for this apparently counterintuitive belief is that a petroleum reserve is not, in fact, a subterranean pool, like the underground lake where Voldemort conceals part of his soul in the Harry Potter books, but rather an imprecisely defined zone of permeable, sponge-like rock that has petroleum in its pores.””
“There are enough in the novelty business without us; and we have something better to do. We have to give an account unto our God of what we do and say, and if we have been murderers of souls, it will be no excuse that we flourished the dagger well, or that when we gave them poison we mixed the draught cleverly, and presented it with poetical phrases.””
“The utmost zeal for Christ is consistent with common-sense and reason: raving, ranting, and fanaticism are products of another zeal which is not according to knowledge.””
“Having no feeling himself, such a preacher creates none, and the people sit and listen while he keeps to dry, lifeless statements, until they come to value him for being "sound", and they themselves come to be sound, too; and I need not add, sound asleep also,””
“My Father, Thou hast denied me this outward and seeming good, now enrich me with Thy love. Give me the gold of Thy favor, bless me indeed. Then, allot to others whatever Thou wilt, Thou shalt divide my portion, my soul shall wait Thy daily will. Do Thou bless me indeed, and I shall be content.””
“You may spoil the Gospel by interposition. You have only push something between Christ and the eye of the soul, to draw away the sinner’s attention from the Saviour, and the mischief is done. Interpose anything between man and Christ, and man will neglect Christ for the thing interposed! Do this, either directly or indirectly, and your religion ceases to be Evangelical.””