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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

  • The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

  • The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

  • You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

  • God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

  • And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

  • Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

  • But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

  • I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

  • After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

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