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True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.


R.C. Sproul

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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Life's irony; Faith without works equals dead faith,but faith also produces the power to love work.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in...
VINCENT NICHOLS True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the ch...
SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN R.C. is amazing,
JAMES WALKER It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in t...
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WILLIAM BARCLAY True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and n...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And ...
VINCENT NICHOLS Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds ...
R.C. SPROUL JR. I am not a typical human being. I am me and don't try to be anything but that because God didn't giv...
TAMMY WOOSTER A true woman always loves a real soldier.
BELLE BOYD When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.
SIMONE WEIL Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst ch...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY [Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that ca...
ROWAN WILLIAMS We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to fai...
JOHN PIPER Religious values can be warped or perverted but when people are true to its real value religious fai...
TONY BLAIR There is hope for the sinner! Salvation is there for the unbelief! The saved don’t need salvation;...
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GEORGE E. MUELLER To be an ambassador for Christ is to be matured in faith
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular the...
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JERRY BRIDGES The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
SIMONE VEIL The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real
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KAREN ARMSTRONG Our confidence is the grace of faith in Jesus Christ.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general...
RUSSELL M. NELSON Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. T...
GODFRIED DANNEELS The real certificate is to know Jesus Christ.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
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HONORE DE BALZAC It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
AMELIA BARR Having her back is a plus. Pam always produces.
JANEVIA TAYLOR Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Have Faith, Strike True.
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