Austin Phelps Quotes

• Are you living for the things you are praying for?

  Austin Phelps

  Rezar, Rezar

  AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.29

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• Ponte el abrigo viejo y cómprate el libro nuevo.

  Austin Phelps

  Felicidad, Actitud, Libro

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

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  Men, Faithful, May

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• It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

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  Prayer, Men, Long

  AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93

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• We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

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  Reality, Christ, Feels

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• We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

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  Prayer, Christ, Intercession

  AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.117

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• Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

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  Inspirational, Persistence, Opportunity

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• La oración es el prefacio del libro de la vida cristiana; el texto del sermón de la nueva vida; el ceñirse la armadura para la batalla; la preparación del peregrino para su viaje. Si no se complementa con la acción, no sirve para nada.

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  Christian, Prayer, Book

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• Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

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  Religious, Principles, Ethics

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• Los oyentes más inteligentes son los que disfrutan más de corazón de la predicación más sencilla. No son ellos los que claman por sermones superlativamente intelectuales o estéticos. Daniel Webster solía quejarse de algunos de los sermones que escuchaba. "En la casa de Dios" quería meditar "sobre las variedades sencillas y los hechos indudables de la religión", no sobre misterios y abstracciones.

  Austin Phelps

  Intelligent, Simple, House

  Austin Phelps (1882). “Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching”

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