Augustus Toplady Quotes

#1. Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

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#2. I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

James Patterson

#3. Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

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#4. The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

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#5. Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.

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#6. Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle.

David Quammen

#7. What separates courage from fear our the thoughts we choose to believe.

Charles F. Glassman

#8. But godliness with contentment is great gain. (1 Timothy 6:6)

Andy Stanley

#9. I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.

KRS-One

#10. The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

Hilda Scott

#11. Let your feelings flow and the scribbled words stay as a sovereign of the moment.

Somya Kedia

#12. Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

Eminem

#13. When Christ entered into Jerusalem the people spread garments in the way: when He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ's feet but even trample upon it ourselves.

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#14. Or by death. She nodded. It was the strangest feeling. I was still half asleep, but

Diana Gabaldon

#15. No better occupation than to look down into the garden.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

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#17. Not the labors of my hands
Can fulfill thy Law's demands:
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for Sin could not atone:
Thou must save, and Thou alone!

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#18. In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

William Howard Taft

#19. I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

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#20. Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?

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#21. Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.

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#22. Consequently, immune systems at this level can be defined a priori as embodied expectations of injury and the corresponding programmes of protection and repair.

Peter Sloterdijk

#23. That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration of Scripture.

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#24. When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

Lytton Strachey

#25. The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.

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#26. How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But not for works which we have done, or shall hereafter do, hath God decreed on sinful men salvation to bestow.

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#27. A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

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#28. Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling

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#29. Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

Edmund Burke

#30. Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

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