Top 21 R. Kent Hughes Quotes
#1. A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.
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#2. On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to be married either. But in both cases if you do not, you will have a very poor relationship.
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#3. The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
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#4. God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.
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#5. The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
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#6. A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.
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#8. Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.
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#9. The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.
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#10. Men, if we are not praying in detail for our wives and children, we are sinning.
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#11. Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.
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#12. There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.
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#13. One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!
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#15. Gossip involves saying behind a person's back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person's face what you would never say behind his or her back.
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#16. Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!
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#17. The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
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#18. The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving ... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.
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#19. Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.
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#20. Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system or government or church. It is the control center of most homes-more ubiquitous and more controlling than Orwell's Big Brother
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#21. A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
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