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ok, not very profound, but it always gets me:

"His arguments gave you the feeling of seeing poodles dancing 'Swan Lake'. You were not so impressed with how well it was done as much as that it could be done at all."

And unfortunately I don't remember where I heard it, either.
 
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Divisions and separations are most objectionable in religion. They weaken the cause of true Christianity ...But before we blame people for them, we must be careful that we lay the blame where it is deserved. False doctrine and heresy are even worse than schism. If people separate themselves from teaching that is positively false and unscriptural, they ought to be praised rather than reproved. In such cases separation is a virtue and not a sin. J.C. RYLE
 
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When God puts a new heart into man, it is not because man deserves a new heart—[it is not] because there was anything good in his nature that could have prompted God to give him a new spirit. The Lord simply gives a man a new heart because He wishes to do it; that is his only reason. "But," you say, "suppose a man cries for a new heart?" I answer, no man ever did cry for a new heart until he had got one; for the cry for a new heart proves that there is a new heart there already.
C. H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Sermons, Vol. 5, "The New Heart,"p. 91.
 
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We are to believe and follow Christ in all things, including his words about Scripture. And this means that Scripture is to be for us what it was to him: the unique, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God, and not merely a human testimony to Christ, however carefully guided and preserved by God. If the Bible is less than this to us, we are not fully Christ's disciples.... James Montgomery Boice, "The Preacher & God's Word"
 
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The Calvinist, in a word, is the man who sees God. He has caught sight of the ineffable Vision, and he will not let it fade for a moment from his eyes--God in nature, God in history, God in grace. Everywhere he sees God in His mighty stepping, everywhere he feels the working of His mighty arm, the throbbing of His mighty heart...Man himself is His--created for His glory, and having as the one supreme end of his existence to glorify his Maker, and happily also to enjoy Him for ever. And salvation, in every step and stage of it, is of God. Conceived in God's love, wrought out by God's own Son in a supernatural life and death in this world of sin, and applied by God's Spirit in a series of acts as supernatural as the virgin birth and the resurrection of the Son of God themselves--it is a supernatural work through and through!
Benjamin B. Warfield, 1909 (in Calvinism Today)
 
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“Plenty of people who are under the Word are not in it!” Howard Hendricks

“Bibles are more often used to adorn coffee tables or press flowers than to feed souls for dis*ciplined lives.” Chuck Colson

"Our thoughts not only reveal what we are, they predict what we will become. We will soon be the sum total of our thoughts." A.W. Tozer
 
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"God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did, in the fullness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification: nevertheless, they are not justified, until the Holy Spirit doth, in due time, actually apply Christ unto them." -John Calvin
 
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Wide is the gate that leads to death, yet people today still eagerly jump over each other with much haste to get there. If Hell had no door, the men of this world would dig for a million years to get in. The world works harder for their damnation than most Christians do to work out their salvation. anon~
 
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Acts 13:48(commentary)
What light, what power, what a treasure does this gospel bring with it! How excellent are its truths, its precepts, its promises! Those came to Christ whom the Father drew, and to whom the Spirit made the gospel call effectual, Ro 8:30. As many as were disposed to eternal life, as many as had concern about their eternal state, and aimed to make sure of eternal life, believed in Christ, in whom God has treasured up that life, and who is the only
Way to it; and it was the grace of God that wrought it in them.
 
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