Work with all your might, but never trust in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing in God, but work at the same time with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray, then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. George Müller Pray to God, … Continue reading “WORK
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WORD OF GOD
See also: Bible The Word of God is not a sounding but a piercing word, not pronounceable by the tongue but efficacious in the mind, not sensible to the ear but fascinating to the affection. Bernard of Clairvaux The Word is the face, the countenance, the representation of God, in whom he is brought to … Continue reading “WORD
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WORD OF KNOWLEDGE
We’ve had numerous occasions where God has revealed sins of people, either through a word of knowledge or a combination of that and a word of wisdom or prophecy. John Wimber
WORDS
How forcible are right words! The Bible, Job 6:25 kjv He multiplieth words without knowledge. The Bible, Job 35:16 kjv A word spoken in due season, how good is it! The Bible, Proverbs 15:23 kjv A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. The Bible, Proverbs 25:11 kjv Let thy … Continue reading “WORDS”
WORDS AND ACTION
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. William Shakespeare
WOMEN’S MINISTRY
A fresh wind is blowing across this church of ours. Barbara C. Harris, first Anglican woman bishop If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the sacraments? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1895 I … Continue reading “WOMEN’S
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS
See also: Suffragettes; Votes for women Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent, that I resolved to claim … Continue reading “WOMEN’S
RIGHTS”
WONDER
See also: Mystery It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. Aristotle Wonder is the basis of worship. Thomas Carlyle The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand … Continue reading “WONDER”
WOMEN
See also: Suffragettes; Women’s ministry; Women’s rights As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. Thomas Aquinas A female is … Continue reading “WOMEN”
WOMEN, EXPLOITATION OF
Trained to do all manner of mean tasks the Eskimo woman is used to enduring the weaknesses and appetites of men. But I still could not get used to what appeared to be a master-and-slave relationship between the hunter and his wife. Raymond de Coccola, missionary in the Canadian Arctic Women: Men have authority over … Continue reading “WOMEN,
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