If You Do Mistakes Will You Be Born Again as Human Beings
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"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At get-go, maybe, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and and so yous are not surprised. But shortly He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is edifice quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor in that location, running upward towers, making courtyards. Yous thought you were existence made into a decent little cottage: simply He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
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"I am trying here to prevent anyone maxim the really foolish affair that people oft say about Him: I'm prepare to accept Jesus every bit a great moral instructor, but I don't have his claim to be God. That is the one thing nosotros must not say. A man who was merely a human being and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a nifty moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would exist the Devil of Hell. You must make your pick. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. Y'all can close him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him equally a demon or you can fall at his anxiety and call him Lord and God, but let u.s. not come up with any patronizing nonsense nearly his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open up to u.s.. He did non intend to."
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality volition ever be original: whereas if you lot merely attempt to tell the truth (without caring twopence how oft information technology has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed information technology."
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"A proud man is always looking downward on things and people; and, of course, as long every bit you are looking down, y'all cannot see something that is above you lot."
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"To have Religion in Christ means, of class, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in maxim yous trusted a person if you lot would not take his advice. Thus if you have actually handed yourself over to Him, information technology must follow that you are trying to obey Him. Just trying in a new way, a less worried style. Not doing these things in order to be saved, simply considering He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven every bit a advantage for your actions, just inevitably wanting to act in a sure way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you."
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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come up nearly all that nosotros call homo history—coin, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"A light-headed idea is current that adept people practice not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Just those who attempt to resist temptation know how stiff information technology is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes but does not know what it would have been like an hr afterwards. That is why bad people, in 1 sense, know very footling virtually badness. They take lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
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"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was fabricated for some other world."
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"Give me all of you!!! I don't want so much of your time, so much of your talents and coin, and and then much of your work. I want Yous!!! ALL OF You!! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural human being or woman, but to Kill It! No half measures will do. I don't want to merely prune a branch here and a branch at that place; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of you a new self---in my paradigm. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give y'all Myself. My volition, shall become your will. My heart, shall go your eye."
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"As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, equally long as you are looking downwards yous cannot see something that is above you."
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"Zippo yous have not given away will ever really be yours."
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"Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just considering it is His) volition not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Fifty-fifty in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking nigh what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no homo who bothers most originality will ever be original whereas if you simply endeavor to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often information technology has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from acme to bottom, Give up yourself, and you lot will find your real self. Lose your life and you will salve information technology. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you will notice eternal life. Keep back nada. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you lot that has not died volition ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you lot will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But wait for Christ and you lot will discover Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."
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"When y'all argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to fence at all: information technology is like cutting off the branch you lot are sitting on."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never take found out that information technology has no meaning: just every bit, if there were no low-cal in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Night would exist without meaning."
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"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."
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"Pride gets no pleasance out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... Information technology is the comparing that makes y'all proud: the pleasure of existence above the rest. Once the element of contest is gone, pride is gone."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are similar eggs at nowadays. And yous cannot proceed indefinitely beingness merely an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"Faith, in the sense in which I am hither using the give-and-take, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accustomed, in spite of your changing moods."
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"The Christian says, 'Creatures are non born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as nutrient. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, in that location is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a want which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most likely explanation is that I was fabricated for some other earth. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy information technology, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy information technology, but only to agitate it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the 1 mitt, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are just a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my truthful country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that state and to assist others to practice the same."
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"Do not waste material time bothering whether y'all 'beloved' your neighbor; human action every bit if you did. Every bit soon every bit we do this we find ane of the corking secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, yous will soon come to love him."
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"Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... Only, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not hateful ceasing to beloved. Honey in this 2nd sense — love as distinct from "existence in dear" — is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriage) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God... "Being in love" first moved them to promise allegiance: this quieter beloved enables them to proceed the promise. It is on this honey that the engine of wedlock is run: beingness in dear was the explosion that started it."
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"I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must detest a bad homo'southward actions merely non hate the bad man: or, every bit they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner. ...I used to retrieve this a dizzy, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a homo did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that in that location was 1 human to whom I had been doing this all my life -- namely myself. Yet much I might dislike my ain cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about information technology. In fact the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the man. Merely because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did those things."
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"To what will you wait for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?"
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"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of whatever other slacker."
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"If you are a Christian y'all practise not accept to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If y'all are an atheist you practice take to believe that the chief point in all the religions of the whole world is merely one huge mistake."
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"This world is a great sculptor'south store. Nosotros are the statues and there'south a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life."
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"The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in beloved, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in dearest. A promise must be nigh things that I tin do, about deportment: no one tin can promise to keep feeling in a certain way. He might too promise to never take a headache or e'er to feel hungry."
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"God made us: invented u.s. as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and information technology would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human being machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why information technology is merely no adept request God to make usa happy in our own way without bothering about organized religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace autonomously from Himself, considering information technology is not there."
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"If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very difficult to understand how nosotros could be free non to practice them. But suppose god is outside and to a higher place the Time-line... You never supposed that your deportment at this moment were whatever less free because God knows what y'all are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow'south actions in just the same way--considering He is already in tomorrow and tin can simply spotter y'all. In a sense, He does not know your action till you take done information technology: just the moment at which y'all accept done information technology is already 'NOW' for Him."
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"In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, merely a human is enabled to apologize and choice himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity"
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