Miles J. Stanford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.
-- Miles J. Stanford

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The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good.
-- Miles J. Stanford

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It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.
-- Miles J. Stanford

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There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'
Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.
To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior
As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

Miles J. Stanford famous quotes

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