"Christ greatly delights in his people and they greatly delight in him"

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John Owen

#People Quotes #Delight Quotes #Christ Quotes

“God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.”
“In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.”

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“In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it - is true godly patience.”
“But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.”
“I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I enjoy the slowness of the whole process. It makes me more deliberate about everything I say.”

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“They only the victory win, Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within; Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high; Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight -- if need be, to die.”

Source : William Wetmore Story (1856). “Monologues and lyrics”, p.178
“I hope to encourage people to take flight on their mats, in their lives, and in their hearts.”
“The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects: and their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.”

Source : John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1846). “A Complete Guide to the Lakes: Comprising Minute Directions for the Tourist with Mr. Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the Country, &c., ...”, p.168

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