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"Paul's evangelistic mission was different from the Kingdom apostles, but in many ways the same. the Kingdom apostles preached Jesus the Messiah, ready to return to Israel and set up His Messianic Kingdom. From Israel, the apostles, with Christ on David's Throne, were to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe everything Christ had commanded them. They would do that because all authority in heaven and on earth had been given to Christ. As we all know, that did not happen. It will happen in the future, but it has not yet happened. What has happened is that Christ revealed a Mystery through His Special Apostle Paul." »Mark McGee
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"History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small." »Mark Yost
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"Why Paul God already had called twelve apostles of the kingdom Although Judas had fallen in transgression, the seat of his apostolic office was filled by Matthias preceding the day of Pentecost. Insofar as Paul was unconverted at the time, he could not have possibly fulfilled the qualificatios set down by the Holy Spirit to be numbered with the twelve (Acts 121-26). of course, there are many dispensationalists who would agree with this interpretation, but teach that God ordained Paul to be the thirteenth apostle of the kingdom. Perhaps you have heard the saying, 'They jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.' In other words, we have gone from bad to worse, which is certainly the case with this view. the number twelve is stamped throughout the pages of prophecy, thus eliminating the possibility of a thirteenth apostolic office (Matt. 1928 cf. Rev. 12-21). What logical explanation then can we give for Paul's apostleship Before the foundation of the world, God foreordained that He would raise up a new apostle to reveal His eternal purpose for the parenthetical age of Grace in which we now live. Hence, Paul says 'But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen Gentiles...' (Gal. 115.16). When God temporarily rolled up the building plans of prophecy and placed them aside, He made known a secret set of plans. With this program came a completely new set of blueprints. According to the counsel of His will, He had predetermined to call Paul as the masterbuilder of the project. So then, the instructions for our building program are found in Paul's epistles. Little wonder the apostles says 'I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.' (1 Cor. 310). It is essential to use Pauline constructio materials (grace doctrines), simply because someday soon the Building Inspector will examine our workmanship to determine if we followed His codes." »Paul Sadler
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"When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?" »Nicolas Martin
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"the three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source." »The Dhammapada
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"the age of Grace began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters alone that we learn about the dispensation of Grace, about Israel being set aside, with Jew and Gentile being saved into the Body of Christ. It was Paul who taught 'all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses' (Acts 2121). It was also Paul who proclaimed the forgiveness of sins 'to all who would believe' in Christ, adding that 'ye could not be justified by the law of Moses' (Acts 1338-39). the measuring rod of grace tells us that the age of Grace began with Paul, then continued through those who were saved and subsequently carried on His God-given doctrines of grace." »John Fredericksen
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"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." »Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 1966
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." »Buddha
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"Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another." »William Butler Yeats, Autobiography
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"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence." »William Blake
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"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence." »Frank Kingdon
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"#3532. the law neither does nor requires idle acts." »California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
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"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live." »Anatole France
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"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts." »Harold Nicolson
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"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals others by their acts." »Sir Harold George Nicolson
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"acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one." »W. H. Auden
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"Practice Random acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty." »Unknown
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"Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love." »Anonymous
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"Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine." »Cicero
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"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." »Unknown
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"Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves." »Thomas Szasz
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"Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance." »Demosthenes
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"I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"the little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life." »William Wordsworth
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"I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing." »Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
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"I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing." »George Bernard Shaw
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"When God temporarily rolled up the building plans of prophecy and placed them aside, He made known a secret set of plans. With this program came a completely new set of blueprints. According to the counsel of His will, He had predetermined to call Paul as the masterbuilder of the project. So then, the instructions for our building program are found in Paul's epistles. Little wonder the apostles says 'I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon' (1 Cor. 310). It is essential to use Pauline construction materials (grace doctrines), simply because someday soon the Building Inspector will examine our workmanship to determine if we followed His codes." »Paul Sadler
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"We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough." »Rabbi Harold Kushner
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"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon." »Denis Watley
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