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No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.
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It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.
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The man whose little sermon is 'repent' sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—'off with his head!' You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven
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When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.
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Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.
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Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop as surely as in the sun. No man can any more create the smallest flower than he could create the greatest world.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Joseph Parker
Born:
April 9, 1830
Died:
November 28, 1902
(aged 72)
Bio:
Joseph Parker was an English Congregational minister.
Known for:
Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God
The people's Bible (1855)
Concise Theology
Rediscovering Holiness
Growing in Christ
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