"The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength."

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Frank Bartleman

#Humility Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Repentance Quotes

“we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.”
“Time was God's first creation.”
“The band and I were leading at a Youth Specialties convention. We were asked to back up Matt Maher for one of the sessions. Matt handed us the chord charts and, with less than 5 minutes of practice, we were playing it live. I fell in love with this song immediately. You can't hear the message of God's sufficient grace too many times. Matt is a great lead worshiper and is a part of Life Teen, a growing worship movement in the Catholic Church.”
“If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.”
“It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.”
“I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.”
“Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.”
“Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ of assistance, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege.”

Source : Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2

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