God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth... -Archibald Alexander

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God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

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Archibald Alexander was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian. He played a significant role in the development of Princeton Theological Seminary and served as its first professor. Alexander's influential writings and teachings helped shape American Reformed theology and had a lasting impact on religious education in the United States.

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Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it....
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being...
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a since...
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections....
Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you...
God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner....
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his...
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportuni...
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, ...
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall m...

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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun....
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal....
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident....
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination....
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions....
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been o...
No sanction can stand against ignited minds....
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me....
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities....
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want....