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• If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessing, Knowing, Done

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.30

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• Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Success, Quality, Details

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• The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Light, Sea

  'Elegiac Stanzas' (on a picture of Peele Castle in a storm, 1807)

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• Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

  William Ralph Inge

  Self, Affection, Intellect

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• Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Faith, Fun, Real

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• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  Oscar de la Renta

  New York, Artist, Paris

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Godly fear is loving and trusting in Him. As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And "perfect love casteth out all fear." I promise the bright light of godly fear will chase away the dark shadows of mortal fears as we look to the Savior, build upon Him as our foundation, and press forward on His covenant path with consecrated commitment.

  David A. Bednar

  Commitment, Godly, Dark

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• Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Educational, Self

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1907). “Preacher and Prayer”

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• If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.

  Boris Johnson

  Dog, Gay, Men

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• A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.

  Herman Bavinck

  Heart, Speaks Out, Names

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• All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence... Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.

  Herman Melville

  Fate, Hands, Voice

  "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" by Herman Melville, (Bk. XIV, ch. 1), 1852.

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• Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.

  John Ross Macduff

  Song, Father, Sunset

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 159, 1895.

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• The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

  Joseph C. Aldrich

  Christian, Self, Joy

  Joseph C. Aldrich, Joe Aldrich (1993). “Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You”, Multnomah

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• He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.

  Robert Ellsberg

  Ideas, God's Creation, Ongoing

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• You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

  Adrian Rogers

  Jesus, Heart, Eye

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• What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and consecration.

  James E. Faust

  Eye, Dedication, Light

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• All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

  Herman Melville

  Profound, Silence, Emotion

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2918, Delphi Classics

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• The Lord Jesus himself proclaims, 'This is My Body.' Before the blessing of the heavenly words something of another character is spoken of; after consecration it is designated 'body'. He himself speaks of his blood. Before the consecration it is spoken of as something else; after the consecration it is spoken of as 'blood'. And you say, 'Amen', that is, 'It is true.' What the mouth speaks, let the mind within confess; what the tongue utters, let the heart feel.

  Ambrose

  Jesus, Heart, Character

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• The only religion that can satisfy today's ideal is a religion that will give consecration to life, and direction to human endeavor, inspire men with faith in themselves, dedicate them to high moral purpose, and give them the strength to live through their failures, and to face with high courage their supreme tragedies.

  Sterling M. McMurrin

  Men, Giving, Inspire

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• Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Powerful, Wine, Blood

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• We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy
  Presence. We are holy in His holiness, loving in His love, strong in His
  strength, tender in His tenderness, patient in His patience, calm in His peace,
  and consecrated in His consecration.

  F. E. Marsh

  Christian, Strong, Holiness

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• What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Baptism, Church

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• Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion with her, the mother, whose sacrifice 'becomes present' just as the sacrifice of her Son 'becomes present' at the words of consecration..... At the root of the Eucharist is the virginal and maternal life of Mary

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Son, Sacrifice

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• When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his feet. Come with your body, to offer it as a living sacrifice upon His altar. Come with your soul and all its powers, and yield them in willing consecration to your God and Saviour. Come, bring them all along-everything, body, soul, intellect, imagination, acquirements-all, without reserve.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Sacrifice, Feet, Yield

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• If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.

  Orestes Brownson

  Men, World, Want

  Orestes Augustus Brownson (1965). “Brownson's Quarterly Review”

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