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As Long As A Man Is Persuaded That He Can Make Even The Smallest Contribution To His Salvation, He Remains Self-confident And Does Not Utterly Despair Of Himself, And So Is Not Humbled Before God. Such A Man Plans Out For Himself A Position, An Occasion, A Work, Which Shall Bring Him Final Salvation, But Which Will Not.

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As Long As A Man Is Persuaded That He Can Make Even The Smallest Contribution To His Salvation, He Remains Self-confident And Does Not Utterly Despair Of Himself, And So Is Not Humbled Before God. Such A Man Plans Out For Himself A Position, An Occasion, A Work, Which Shall Bring Him Final Salvation, But Which Will Not.

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Lord God...use Me As Your Instrument -- But Do Not Forsake Me, For If Ever I Should Be On My Own, I Would Easily Wreck It All.

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Reason Must Be Deluded, Blinded, And Destroyed. Faith Must Trample Underfoot All Reason, Sense, And Understanding, And Whatever It Sees Must Be Put Out Of Sight And ... Know Nothing But The Word Of God.

At The Last, When We Die, We Have The Dear Angels For Our Escort On The Way. They Who Can Grasp The Whole World In Their Hands Can Surely Also Guard Our Souls, That They Make That Last Journey Safely.

... We Must Drive Them [jews] Out Like Mad Dogs, So That We Do Not Become Partakers Of Their Abominable Blasphemy And All The Their Other Vices And Thus Merit God's Wrath And Be Damned With Them.

This Is True Faith, A Living Confidence In The Goodness Of God.

One Book Is Enough, But A Thousand Books Is Not Too Many!

The Bible Is The Book That Makes Fools Of The Wise Of This World; It Is Only Understood By The Plain And Simple Hearted.

The Holy Spirit Is No Skeptic, & The Things He Has Written In Our Hearts Are Not Doubts Or Opinions, But Assertions - Surer & More Certain Than Sense & Life Itself.

You Should Be Certain That Angels Are Protecting You When You Go To Sleep. Yea, That They Are Protecting You Also In All Your Business, Whether You Enter Or Leave Your Home.

Forgiveness Is God's Command.

It Is Not The Imitation That Makes Sons; It Is Sonship That Makes Imitators.

Reason Should Be Destroyed In All Christians.

If We Christians Would Join The Wise Men, We Must Close Our Eyes To All That Glitters Before The World And Look Rather On The Despised And Foolish Things, Help The Poor, Comfort The Despised, And Aid The Neighbor In His Need.

He Who Wholly Renounces Himself, And Relies Not On Mere Human Reason, Will Make Good Progress In The Scriptures; But The World Comprehends Them Not, From Ignorance Of That Mortification Which Is The Gift Of God's Word.

Faith Is Under The Left Nipple.

Take A Look At Your Own Heart, And You Will Soon Find Out What Has Stuck To It And Where Your Treasure Is. It Is Easy To Determine Whether Hearing The Word Of God, Living According To It, And Achieving Such A Life Gives You As Much Enjoyment And Calls Forth As Much Diligence From You As Does Accumulating And Saving Money And Property.

In This Revolution No Plans Have Been Written For Retreat.

None Can Believe How Powerful Prayer Is, And What It Is Able To Effect, But Those Who Have Learned It By Experience.

If There Is Anything In Us, It Is Not Our Own; It Is A Gift Of God. But If It Is A Gift Of God, Then It Is Entirely A Debt One Owes To Love, That Is, To The Law Of Christ. And If It Is A Debt Owed To Love, Then I Must Serve Others With It, Not Myself.

This Life Therefore Is Not Righteousness, But Growth In Righteousness, Not Health, But Healing, Not Being But Becoming, Not Rest But Exercise. We Are Not Yet What We Shall Be, But We Are Growing Toward It, The Process Is Not Yet Finished, But It Is Going On, This Is Not The End, But It Is The Road. All Does Not Yet Gleam In Glory, But All Is Being Purified.

Thought Provoking

The God Whom We Worship Is Not A Weak And Incompetent God. He Is Able To Beat Back Gigantic Waves Of Opposition And To Bring Low Prodigious Mountains Of Evil. The Ringing Testimony Of The Christian Faith Is That God Is Able.

As Long As We Live There Is Never Enough Singing.

In The Church, Great Wonders Daily Occur, Such As The Forgiveness Of Sins, Triumph Over Death . . . The Gift Of Righteousness And Eternal Life.

And Though This World With Devils Filled, Should Threaten To Undo Us, We Will Not Fear, For God Hath Willed His Truth To Triumph Through Us.

There Is No Wisdom Save In Truth.

When I Am Assailed With Heavy Tribulations, I Rush Out Among My Pigs Rather Than Remain Alone By Myself. The Human Heart Is Like A Millstone In A Mill: When You Put Wheat Under It, It Turns And Grinds And Bruises The Wheat To Flour; If You Put No Wheat, It Still Grinds On, But Then 'tis Itself It Grinds And Wears Away. So The Human Heart, Unless It Be Occupied With Some Employment, Leaves Space For The Devil, Who Wriggles Himself In And Brings With Him A Whole Host Of Evil Thoughts, Temptations, And Tribulations, Which Grind Out The Heart.

Your Thoughts Of God Are Too Human

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Self Confidence

Do Not Suppose That Abuses Are Eliminated By Destroying The Object Which Is Abused. Men Can Go Wrong With Wine And Women. Shall We Then Prohibit And Abolish Women?

We Are But The Instruments Or Assistants, By Whom God Works.

A Large Number Of Deaf, Crippled And Blind People Are Afflicted Solely Through The Malice Of The Demon. And One Must In No Wise Doubt That Plagues, Fevers And Every Sort Of Evil Come From Him.

It Is A Tremendously Hard Thing To Pray Aright, Yea, It Is Verily The Science Of All Sciences.

God Creates Out Of Nothing. Therefore, Until A Man Is Nothing, God Can Make Nothing Out Of Him.

Singing Has Nothing To Do With The Affairs Of This World: It Is Not For The Law. Singers Are Merry, And Free From Sorrows And Cares.

When Questioned Whether The Blessed Will Not Be Saddened By Seeing Their Nearest And Dearest Tortured Answers, "not In The Least."

He Who Loses Sight Of The Word Of God, Falls Into Despair; The Voice Of Heaven No Longer Sustains Him; He Follows Only The Disorderly Tendency Of His Heart.

We Come To The New Testament, Where Again A Host Of Imperative Verbs Is Mustered In Support Of That Miserable Bondage Of Free-choice, And The Aid Of Carnal Reason With Her Inferences And Similes Is Called In, Just As In A Picture Or A Dream You Might See The King Of The Flies With His Lances Of Straw And Shields Of Hay Arrayed Against A Real And Regular Army Of Seasoned Human Troops. That Is How The Human Dreams Of Diatribe Go To War With The Battalions Of Divine Words.

The Gospel Cannot Be Preached And Heard Enough, For It Cannot Be Grasped Well Enough.

Anything That One Imagines Of God Apart From Christ Is Only Useless Thinking And Vain Idolatry.

Whenever I Have Prayed Earnestly, I Have Always Received More Than I Asked For. God May Delay, But He Always Comes.

When Our Lord And Master Jesus Christ Said, 'repent,' He Willed The Entire Life Of Believers To Be One Of Repentance.

I Was Born To Fight Devils And Factions. It Is My Business To Remove Obstacles, To Cut Down Thorns, To Fill Up Quagmires And To Open And Make Straight Paths. If I Must Have Some Failing Let Me Rather Speak The Truth With Too Great Sincerity Than Once To Act The Hypocrite And Conceal The Truth.

We Refuse To Believe That There Are Insufficient Funds In The Great Vaults Of Opportunity Of This Nation.

I Am So Busy Now That If I Did Not Spend Three Hours Each Day In Prayer, I Could Not Get Through The Day.

When I Was A Child There Were Many Witches, And They Bewitched Both Cattle And Men, Especially Children.

It Is A Good Thing To Let Prayer Be The First Business In The Morning And The Last In The Evening. Guard Yourself Against Such False And Deceitful Thoughts That Keep Whispering, "wait A While. In An Hour Or So I Will Pray. I Must First Finish This Or That." Thinking Such Thoughts We Get Away From Prayer Into Other Things That Will Hold Us And Involve Us Till The Prayer Of The Day Comes To Naught.

Christ Took Our Sins And The Sins Of The Whole World As Well As The Father's Wrath On His Shoulders, And He Has Drowned Them Both In Himself So That We Are Thereby Reconciled To God And Become Completely Righteous.

A Religion That Gives Nothing, Costs Nothing, And Suffers Nothing, Is Worth Nothing.

We Know, On The Authority Of Moses, That Longer Than Six Thousand Years The World Did Not Exist.

A Happy Fart Never Comes From A Miserable Ass.

The Recognition Of Sin Is The Beginning Of Salvation

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