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Extermination of city could be prevented by presence of a few who have faith of God. ↗

— Toba Beta

#sodom-and-gomorrah #faith

Evil is not all evil ↗

— Chinue Achebe

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What is stripped away is not our humanity but our idolatries, not faith but our false hopes, not meaning but out illusions. Dying in order to live. ↗

— Charles Ringma

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We have been created as recipients. I look at the stars, at the grass, at my fat-faced children, at my fingernails, and I am oppressed by gratitude I have been given a belly so that I might hunger. I have been given hunger so that I might be fed. I look in the atheist's mirror. I look at his faith in the nonexistence of meaning. I look at his preaching and painting. I see nothing but a shit-storm. Why would I walk through that door? Why would I live in your novel? ↗

— N.D. Wilson

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The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about. ↗

— Richard Fliegel

#character-comedy #mystery #series #faith

The father will descend, The father will descend. The earth will tremble, The earth will tremble. Everybody will arise, Everybody will arise. Stretch out your hands. Stretch out your hands. ↗

— In Faith and In Wind

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the primary responsibility of any pastor or preacher who desires revival in a Church is to see that all the members are led to genuine repentance and heart faith. A corpse cannot be revived! We have too many unconverted or unsaved persons both in our pulpits and pew today. ↗

— R. Stanley

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Ask. TRUST. Give thanks. Simple, right? ↗

— Dawn Gluskin

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Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the work of preparing, prevening grace, which draws us gradually toward wishing to please God. Grace is working quietly at the point of our desiring, bringing us in time to despair over our own unrighteousness, challenging our perverse dispositions, so that our distorted wills cease gradually to resist the gift of God. ↗

— Thomas C. Oden

#christianity #conviction #god #grace #prevenient-grace

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT ↗

— John Paul Warren

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