John Charles Pollock Quotes

#1. providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each

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#2. Turning consciously from evil to faith did not always bring immediate awareness of how to please God

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#3. At length he told the Lord he would leave it in His hands. Peace flowed back. No voice or light disclosed the next move,

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#4. I can do all things in Him who strengthens me" (or, "I am ready for anything through the strength of the One who lives within me").

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#5. Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.

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#6. A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

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#7. For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.

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#8. He would have considered it ironic that, the more men discovered the insignificance of their planet, the more highly they would rate themselves, all the more sure that they could explain everything without reference to God. They

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#9. New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

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#10. Though blue sky and the road's yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

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#11. His (Paul's) entire personality within mutation. He was being turned inside out as he led Jesus light the recesses of his soul.

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#12. His joy was a release of Paul's conversion, not the heavy backslapping practical-joking humor of the Victorians, nor the cynical satire or the flippancy of the twenty first century mass media, just the gift of not taking himself or his adversaries too seriously.

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#13. In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

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#14. Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

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