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- “Again, as divine love doth advance and elevate the soul; so it is that alone which can make it happy: the highest and most ravishing pleasures, the most solid and substantial delights that human nature is capable of, are those which arise from the endearments of a well-placed and successful affection.” Henry Scougal
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- "Guilt is to the mind as pain is to the body." John Piper
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- "You can learn a lot about a man by the promises he keeps in small conversation." Bowman Williams
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- "Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication." Roger Staubach
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- "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy."
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"Every worthwhile accomplishment in life, big or litte, has its stage of drudgery and triumph, a beginning, a struggle, a victory."
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- "I'm gonna apologize to all of you who have the New International Version...in, in your hands....I really DON'T apologize for anything; I think you ought to get another version. But, I say out loud a lot to all my friends who worked on translating the NIV, umm, I think God has used the NIV for the last 30 years to save millions of people and sanctify millions of people and bless millions of people, because God is God and He loves His word, and, umhmm, you can read any version under the sun and be blessed, so, however, I can't make my point in the NIV, and, uh...you'll see it when we get to it. " John Piper
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- "One of the reasons are church, every church, all this culture are a wash in lust, pornography, and every manner of sexual perversion is that we are intellectually and emotionally disconnected from shocking, stunning, divine, absolute staggering, grandeur. " John Piper
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- "Self-denial is not the renunciation of the quest for joy, it's the renunciation of lesser, inadequate joys for bigger and longer ones."
John Piper
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- "Do not let any one claim to be a true American if they ever attempt to remove religion from politics." George Washington
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- "John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!” Bill Walton
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- "Virtually everything I preach and write and do is shaped by this truth: that the exhibition of God's glory and the deepest joy of human souls are one thing." John Piper
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- "A joyless Christian is a contradiction in terms."
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- "Never worry about criticism from the misinformed." Adolph Rupp
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- "The best players, when they detect a weakness in their own game, go out and work on it untilt the weakness becomes a strength." Bill Walton
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- "When you get too engrossed in those things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect those things over which you do have control — namely, your preparation." John Wooden
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- "Prone to wander—Lord, I feel it—prone to leave the God I love: here's my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above." Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
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- "May the love of Jesus fill me as the waters fill the sea; him exalting, self abasing, this is victory." May the Mind of Christ My Savior
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- "I will not demean myself by stealing victory like a thief." Alexander the Great
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- "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists buy by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
Patrick Henry
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"My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part, but the whole, is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my Soul!" It is Well with My Soul
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- "A sinner is a slave when he sins with most freedom." Thomas Watson
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- "Hypocrites weep for sin only as it brings affliction. Hypocrites never send forth the streams of their tears except when God's judgments are approaching." Thomas Watson
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- "The godly man strives to approve himself to God in everything. There is a time coming shortly, when a smiled from God's face will be infinitely better than all the applause of men." Thomas Watson
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- "When you die, will it be the end of all you've been working for? Or the beginning of what you've been hoping for?" David Sunday
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"There has been a wonderful alteration in my mind, in respect to the doctorine of God's sovereignty...The doctrine has very often appeared exceeding pleasant, bright, and sweet. Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God." Jonathan Edwards
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