Resource Manager Posted August 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 26 August 2014 "We shall never attain to perfection this side of the Kingdom, either as individuals or as a Community. We shall make mistakes in interpretation, and in application, of the Word. God knows that, even better than we. Even Paul had to confess that “now we see as in a glass, darkly”, our apprehension of the Truth is “bit by bit” (Moffatt). But at the end it will be our attitudes that will determine our destiny—what the direction of our minds has been, how we have thought about our fellows and, even more important, about God." - L.W. RichardsonThe Importance of Right Attitudes (1970) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 27 August 2014 "Our Lord, above all men, was poor in spirit, humble, contrite, submissive, reverent, altogether sanctified, consecrated and devoted to his Father’s will. He fulfilled completely the description given by Isaiah of the one to whom God will look, “even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word” (Isaiah 66:3). He came, as it was written in the volume of the book, to do God’s will. He did it: his response was complete and entire, and he finished the work which the Father gave him to do; and thereby he glorified God among those whom he instructed." - John MorrisThe Brotherhood Today (1979) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 28 August 2014 "The condition of spiritual growth and progress is thus laid down by Paul: it consists in the contemplation of Christ and increasingly being conformed to the unique glory of his person, for he is the image of the invisible God (see Romans 8:29; Colossians 1:15). Shortly before his death, the Lord said to the apostles: “Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.” (John 14:19)." - T.J. BarlingThe Glory that Excelleth (1995) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 29 August 2014 "God and man do not think alike. If we wish to manifest the characteristics of our heavenly Father, as we are called to do, we must try to think as He thinks. In order for the Creator to show us how He thinks, He must communicate with us, and the foundation for that communication is the written word." - Jim DillinghamBible Words (1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 30 August 2014 "Many things tend to dim the brightness of the hope in our minds. Let us take the precautions appointed for our help. Let us “give ourselves to reading” (1 Tim. 4:13), pray without ceasing, and forsake not the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is. In this way, we may hope, with the help we shall receive from within the veil, to keep ourselves unspotted from the world, and to receive at last that joyful welcome into rest and glory which awaits all the children of God, in the day of the Lord’s promised return to the earth." - Robert RobertsExhortation (1880) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 31 August 2014 "How can we "bless" God? We cannot bless Him in the way that He has blessed us. We cannot give to Him as He has given to us. Even if we give to Him all that we have, we should still have to say, in the words of David, "all things come from you, and of your own have we given you." (1 Chronicles 29:14) We can, however, give praise and thanks and show our appreciation of God’s blessing – these are ours to give." - John CarterLetter to the Ephesians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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