"Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian."

-- Theodore Austin-Sparks

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“She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.”
“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
“What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.”
“Whereas I think: Iâ€™m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I donâ€™t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which Iâ€™m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I havenâ€™t existed and wonâ€™t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!”
“It is worth dying to find out what life is.”
“Our children are the cement of life, its up to us to make the foundation of the future!”
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
“If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.”

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