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07/20/2025 – “I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those…prayers were destined to affect…we would be so paralyzed with awe…that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.” Peter Kreeft

Soli Deo Gloria!

07/18/2025 – “If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.” Peter Kreeft

Islam: “Where is the love?” . Who is their god? That would be Allah, a unipersonal god. You can have an all-powerful “unipersonal” god, at least in your own head …

07/12/2025 – ““Praying is spiritual work; and human nature does not like taxing, spiritual work. Human nature wants to sail to heaven under a favoring breeze, a full, smooth sea. Prayer is humbling work. It abases intellect and pride, crucifies vainglory, and signs our spiritual bankruptcy, and all these are hard for flesh and blood to bear. It is easier not to pray than to bear them. So we come to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of all times–little or no praying. Of these two evils, perhaps little praying is worse than no praying. Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a salvo for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.” ― E.M. Bounds, “The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds” : Power Through Prayer, The Reality of Prayer, The Essentials of Prayer, The Weapon of Prayer, Satan: His Personality, Power And Overthrow and More.

E.M. Bounds bio:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/942850.E_M_Bounds

Soli Deo Gloria!

07/08/2025 – ““All that is not eternal, is eternally out-of-date.”  C.S. Lewis

Soli Deo Gloria!

07/07/2025 – “I would rather wear out than rust out.” George Whitfield (1714 – 1770) //biography – link attached

https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Awakening

Soli Deo Gloria!

06/29/2025 – ” Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose–all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.” William Temple (1881 – 1944) – Archbishop of Canterbury

biography:

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/protestant-christianity-biographies/william-temple

Soli Deo Gloria!

06/26/2025 – “He who has God has everything, and he who has God and nothing else lacks nothing, and he who has God and everything else does not have anything more than he who has God alone.” Saint Augustine – “Confessions”

Soli Deo Gloria!

06/22/2025 – “Christ’s cross is Christ’s way to Christ’s crown … The unmortified Christian and the heathen are of the same religion, and the deity they truly worship is the god of this world.” William Penn (during imprisonment in the Tower of London – 1668)

Soli Deo Gloria!