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The blessing has been so significatn that we have continued our satiric tact [sic] with an additional objective in mind -- keeping the suits and haircuts away. Whenever a promising movement of the Holy Spirit begins nowadays, one of the first things that happens is that the agents, businessmen, and other assorted handlers move in so that they might straighten out certain unmarketable "blemishes" in order to take the show on the road. And when a promising ministry hits the big time, the unfortunate people in it are made twice as much sons of hell as their promoters. It is therefore our resolve to stay as unmarketable as we can. If we ever get invited to the Great Black Tie Banquet of Evangelicalism, we want everyone there to be braced for the moment when we, on a prearranged signal, throw our dinner rolls at Pat Robertson .Douglas Wilson
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The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today by the majority of evangelicals is the power of man.A.W. Tozer
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Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.Unknown
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The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.Unknown
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Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.Unknown
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What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.Unknown
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Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.Unknown
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Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.Unknown
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Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.Unknown
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That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so foreverUnknown
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My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.Unknown
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Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.Unknown
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Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success.Unknown
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Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.Unknown
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I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.Unknown
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In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.Unknown
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I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice.Unknown
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Finding happiness by delivering it.Unknown
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Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.Unknown
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I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.Unknown
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Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.Unknown
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You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for the mutual benefit of both.Unknown
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You’ve got to be driven to become successful.Unknown
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What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?Unknown
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In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.Unknown
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Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.Unknown
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I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help.Unknown
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I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.Unknown
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Like the evangelist, I will shine with the light I have been shown, recognise that I have the ultimate solution for all my prospects, nurture that feeling deep within, and repeat the words to myself every day, until there is no doubt in my mind that keeping such good news hidden would be the very worst type of sin.Unknown
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I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.Unknown
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I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help.Unknown
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It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts.Unknown
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Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.Unknown
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I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.Unknown
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You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.Unknown
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Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.Unknown
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Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions.Unknown
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How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.Unknown
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Who would be willing to put up with less than the desired result, if they could afford to have it done properly?Unknown
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The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.Unknown
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In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong.Unknown
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I need a first-class reputationUnknown
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In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.Unknown
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If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight?Unknown
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It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience.Unknown
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His belief is so passionate that it fills him with the burning desire to share his fabulous news with anyone who will listen. He is concerned that it is us that might be missing out, not him. His faith in a single road to salvation and paradise is so intense, that it would be ungodly not to share the good news with all those who are not aware.Unknown
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This is how you must be. You must become as evangelical about your promised outcome as he is about his. You must believe that you, and you alone, have the solution to your prospects problems. Even if they do not recognise those problems themselves.Unknown
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Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer's money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied.Unknown
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You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.Unknown
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And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.Unknown
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Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.Unknown
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I have a complicated spiritual history. Here's the short version: I was born into a Mass-going Roman Catholic family, but my parents left the church when I was in the fifth grade and joined a Southern Baptist church–yes, in Connecticut. I am an alumnus of Wheaton College–Billy Graham's alma mater in Illinois, not the Seven Sisters school in Massachusetts–and the summer between my junior and senior year of (Christian) high school, I spent a couple of months on a missions trip performing in whiteface as a mime-for-the- Lord on the streets of London's West End. Once I left home for Wheaton, I ended up worshiping variously (and when I could haul my lazy tuckus out of bed) at the nondenominational Bible church next to the college, a Christian hippie commune in inner-city Chicago left over from the Jesus Freak movement of the 1960s, and an artsy-fartsy suburban Episcopal parish that ended up splitting over same-sex issues. My husband of more than a decade likes to describe himself as a “collapsed Catholic, ” and for more than twenty-five years, I have been a born-again Christian. Groan, I know. But there's really no better term in the current popular lexicon to describe my seminal spiritual experience. It happened in the summer of 1980 when I was about to turn ten years old. My parents had both had born-again experiences themselves about six months earlier, shortly before our family left the Catholic church–much to the shock and dismay of the rest of our extended Irish and/or Italian Catholic family–and started worshiping in a rented public grade school gymnasium with the Southern Baptists. My mother had told me all about what she'd experienced with God and how I needed to give my heart to Jesus so I could spend eternity with him in heaven and not frying in hell. I was an intellectually stubborn and precocious child, so I didn't just kneel down with her and pray the first time she told me about what was going on with her and Daddy and Jesus. If something similar was going to happen to me, it was going to happen in my own sweet time. A few months into our family's new spiritual adventure, after hearing many lectures from Mom and sitting through any number of sermons at the Baptist church–each ending with an altar call and an invitation to make Jesus the Lord of my life– I got up from bed late one Sunday night and went downstairs to the den where my mother was watching television. I couldn't sleep, which was unusual for me as a child. I was a champion snoozer. In hindsight I realize something must have been troubling my spirit. Mom went into the kitchen for a cup of tea and left me alone with the television, which she had tuned to a church service. I don't remember exactly what the preacher said in his impassioned, sweaty sermon, but I do recall three things crystal clearly: The preacher was Jimmy Swaggart; he gave an altar call, inviting the folks in the congregation in front of him and at home in TV land to pray a simple prayer asking Jesus to come into their hearts; and that I prayed that prayer then and there, alone in the den in front of the idiot box. Seriously. That is precisely how I got “saved.” Alone. Watching Jimmy Swaggart on late-night TV. I also spent a painful vacation with my family one summer at Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Heritage USA Christian theme park in South Carolina. But that's a whole other book… .Cathleen Falsani
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Evangelism, instead of being a normal part of careful and regular expository preaching, with the twin effect on the consciences of the unconverted and on the growth in grace of Christians, becomes a special, dramatic activity. This leads to an orientation of church life away from Scripture, and as scriptural and non-scriptural duties become confused, the main duties which God requires of Christians and ministers are overshadowed.Iain H. Murray
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Evangelical Christians need to notice.., that the Reformation said 'Scripture Alone' and not 'the Revelation of God in Christ Alone'. If you do not have the view of the Scriptures that the Reformers had, you really have no content in the word 'Christ' - and this is the modern drift in theology. Modern theology uses the word without content because 'Christ' is cut away from the Scriptures. The Reformation followed the teaching of Christ Himself in linking the revelation Christ gave of God to the revelation of the written Scriptures. .Francis A. Schaeffer
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Furthermore, unlike so many of his evangelical contemporaries he did not hold the view that the various inter-denominational youth movements represented the most hopeful field of labour; indeed his doctrine of the church left him with little sympathy for that attitude.Iain H. Murray
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Have you heard of the Children of Mae?”“The cult?” She knew of a religious group whose members went door to door, preaching the benefits of self-discipline–abstinence, celibacy or monogamy, vegetarianism–pretty much anything fun was prohibited. They had never come to Vesper’s house because her father was a butcher and probably pretty low on their list of possible converts.Colleen Chen