To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.E. Stanley Jones
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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