A Quote by Jesse Jackson
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
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How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!
Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
My little girl was born in Los Angeles, and my wife was born in Bethlehem, Pa.
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born
in thee thy soul is still forlorn.
What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.
Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?
We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine
We're born to radiate
We're born to live, we're born to love
We're born to never hate.
To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion - and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder.
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