Thomas Russell quotes

“The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.”
-- Thomas Russell

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“Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!”
-- Thomas Russell

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“Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.”

“The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.”

“And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.”

Source : Adrienne von Speyr (1995). “With God and with Men: Prayers”, p.22, Ignatius Press

“Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.”

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.”

“Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

“Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.”

Source : Charles Capps (1981). “Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen”, Harrison House Incorporated

“The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.”

“Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.”

“Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.”