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" At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption. "
God
Blood
Redemption
" Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian. "
Home
You
Make
" Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character. "
Human
Character
Life
" Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. "
Prayer
Mind
Work
" God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross. "
Loved
Nature
Us
" Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. "
New
Stream
You
" If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. "
Power
Spirit
Working
" In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things. "
Things
Person
Movement
" In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. "
Than
Ordinary
Better
" Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. "
Basic
Supplied
Life
" Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. "
Our
Intelligence
Results
" Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. "
Good
Mistake
Intelligence
" Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. "
Religion
Ourselves
God
" Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. "
World
Spiritual
God
" Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. "
Person
Back
Commitment
" Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. "
Your
Down
God
" Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ. "
Character
Self
Giving
" The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. "
Action
Perfect
Mistakes
" The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. "
Mind
Actions
Important
" To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. "
Man
God
You
" Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. "
Temptation
Freedom
Living
" We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. "
Will
Need
Best
" We grow small trying to be great. "
Small
Great
Grow
" Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. "
Admiration
Character
Stand
" When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian. "
Depths
Christian
Spirit
" When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. "
Think
Character
Human
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