W. Ian Thomas Quotes

#1. Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours.

W. Ian Thomas

#2. Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now.

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#3. All of Christ in all of you. You can never have more. You need never have less.

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#4. Again, "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17), and here the word to pray does not mean to beg or to plead as if God were unwilling to give
but simply to expose by faith every situation as it arises, to the all-sufficiency of the One who indwells you by His life.

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#5. For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith

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#6. To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.

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#7. The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!

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#8. Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.

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#9. To be in Christ
that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you
that is sanctification!

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#10. Good works are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ
whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2).

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#11. To be in Christ - that makes you fit for heaven; but for Christ to be in you - that makes you fit for earth! To be in Christ changes your destination; but for Christ to be in you - that changes your destiny! The one makes heaven your home - the other makes this world His workshop.

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#12. There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!

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