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Book cover for Absolute Surrender (Updated and Annotated): The Blessedness of Forsaking All and Following Christ
How can I learn to love? I cannot, until the Spirit of God fills my heart with God’s love, and I long for God’s love in a very different sense from which I have sought it so selfishly, as a comfort and a joy and a happiness and a pleasure ...more
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“James paints a picture of a downward spiral of giving into temptation. First, evil desire entices and lures (or traps) the complicit victim. Next, as this indwelling evil desire is allowed to run unchecked, it “gives birth to sin.” In other words, just as conception leads naturally to childbirth, giving free rein to sinful inclinations naturally results in discrete moral transgressions. Just as water runs downhill, so evil desire, if allowed to pursue its “gravitational inclination,” runs down into sinful activity.”
Iain M. Duguid, ESV Expository Commentary (Volume 12): Hebrews–Revelation

“An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.”
Thomas Brooks

R. Albert Mohler Jr.
“Human autonomy is the great idolatrous first principle of the modern secular worldview.”
Albert Mohler

John Owen
“He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.”
John Owen

E.M. Bounds
“This generation may be a better age than the past, but there is an infinite distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advancing civilization, and its betterment by the increase of holiness and Christlikeness by the energy of prayer.”
E.M. Bounds, Pastor and Prayer: Why and How Pastors Ought to Pray

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