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Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.


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We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.



When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.



Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!



A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.



God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.



Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.



Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.



Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.



Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.



Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.





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They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.

They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.



I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.



Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.



As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.



It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.

It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.



Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.



[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.



I like to say I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I'm a Christ-o-crat.

I like to say I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I'm a Christ-o-crat.



Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.



I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'




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