Girls for Truth

“The Bible says radical things about the stream of consciousness that talks inside us: ‘Every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the days’ (Genesis 6:5); ‘All his thoughts are, ‘There is no God’ (Psalm 10:4). This does not only refer to vial lifestyles. It includes the everyday ways our minds operate without reference to God. Functional atheism is our most natural state of mind.”

-David Powlison in Speaking Truth in Love: Counsel in Community pgs. 17-18

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“Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another
person as God has loved us.”

-Joshua Harris

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“God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness, but a manifestation of His Christ.”

- Watchman Nee

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“Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen…. If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified.”

- Oswald Chambers

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“The deepest longing of the human heart and the deepest meaning of heaven and earth are summed up in this: the glory of God. The universe was made to show it, and we were made to see it and savor it. Nothing less will do.”

- John Piper

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“Either sin will keep you from the Word, or the Word will keep you from sin.”

– John Bunyan

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“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

- Jim Elliot

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“Preach the gospel always. When necessary use words.”

- Francis of Assisi

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“There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still.”

-Betsie Ten Boom

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“God’s sovereign providence stands over and above our actions. He works out His will through the actions of human wills, without violating the freedom of those human wills.”

-R.C. Sproul

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“There is a crucial difference between the providence of God and fortune, fate, or luck. The key to this difference is found in the personal character of God. Fortune is blind while God is all-seeing. Fate is impersonal while God is a Father.
Luck is dumb while God can speak.”

-R.C. Sproul

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything
else.”

-C.S. Lewis

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“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshiped.”

-Evelyn Underhill

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“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

-C.S. Lewis

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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

-Charles Spurgeon

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“A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.”

-Charles Spurgeon

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“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”

-Charles Spurgeon

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“Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it”

– Blaise Pascal

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“I know not a word which can express the surprise and wonder our souls ought to feel at God’s goodness to us. Our hearts playing the harlot; our lives far from perfect; our faith almost blown out; our unbelief often prevailing; our pride lifting up its accursed head; our patience a poor sickly plant, almost nipped by one night’s frost; our courage little better than cowardice; our love lukewarmness; our ardour but as ice—oh, my dear brethren, if we will but think any one of us what a mass of sin we are, if we will but reflect that we are after all, as one of the fathers writes, “walking dunghills,” we should indeed be surprised that the sun of divine grace should continue so perpetually to shine upon us, and that the abundance of heaven’s mercy should be revealed in us.

-Charles H. Spurgeon

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“He who lives without prayer, he who lives with little prayer, he who
seldom reads the Word, and he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh
influence from on high -he will be the man whose heart will become dry
and barren.”

-Charles Spurgeon

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“God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, “0 Lord, Thou knowest.” Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God’s omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.”

-A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God

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