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Eternal Life Is Not A Gift From God; Eternal Life Is The Gift Of God. The Energy And The Power Which Was So Very Evident In Jesus Will Be Exhibited In Us By An Act Of The Absolute Sovereign Grace Of God, Once We Have Made That Complete And Effective Decision About Sin. We Have To Keep Letting Go, And Slowly, But Surely, The Great Full Life Of God Will Invade Us, Penetrating Every Part.

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Eternal Life Is Not A Gift From God; Eternal Life Is The Gift Of God. The Energy And The Power Which Was So Very Evident In Jesus Will Be Exhibited In Us By An Act Of The Absolute Sovereign Grace Of God, Once We Have Made That Complete And Effective Decision About Sin. We Have To Keep Letting Go, And Slowly, But Surely, The Great Full Life Of God Will Invade Us, Penetrating Every Part.

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Obedience To The Call Of Christ Nearly Always Costs Everything To Two People- The One Who Is Called, And The One Who Loves That One.

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Temptations In The Life Of Faith Are Not Accidents; Each Temptation Is Part Of A Plan, A Step In The Progress Of Faith.

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Be Rightly Related To God, Find Your Joy There, And Out Of You Will Flow Rivers Of Living Water.

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When We Lose Sight Of God We Become Hard And Dogmatic. We Hurl Our Own Petitions At God's Throne And Dictate To Him As To What We Wish Him To Do. We Do Not Worship God, Nor Do We Seek To Form The Mind Of Christ. If We Are Hard Towards God, We Will Become Hard Towards Other People.

I Have Learnt That I Am Me, That I Can Do The Things That, As One Might Put It, Me Can Do, But I Cannot Do The Things That Me Would Like To Do.

There Is Always One Fact More In Every Man's Case About Which We Know Nothing.

Complete Weakness And Dependence Will Always Be The Occasion For The Spirit Of God To Manifest His Power.

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The Loadstar Of A Saint Is God Himself, Not Estimated Usefulness. It Is The Work That God Does Through Us That Count, Not What We Do For Him.

There Are Certain Things We Must Not Pray About - Moods, For Instance. Moods Never Go By Praying, Moods Go By Kicking.

Our Lord Insists On The Social Aspect Of Our Lives: He Shows Very Distinctly That We Cannot Further Ourselves Alone.

A Man Ceases To Be An Honest Doubter The Moment He Refuses One Way Of Getting At The Truth Because He Does Not Like That Way.

Our Work Is Not To Save Souls, But To Disciple Them. Salvation And Sanctification Are The Work Of God's Sovereign Grace, And Our Work As His Disciples Is To Disciple Others' Lives Until They Are Totally Yielded To God. One Life Totally Devoted To God Is Of More Value To Him Than One Hundred Lives Which Have Been Simply Awakened By His Spirit. As Workers For God, We Must Reproduce Our Own Kind Spiritually, And Those Lives Will Be God's Testimony To Us As His Workers. God Brings Us Up To A Standard Of Life Through His Grace, And We Are Responsible For Reproducing That Same Standard In Others.

Continually Revise Your Relationship To God Until The Only Certainty You Have Is Not That You Are Faithful, But That He Is.

Our Relationship

Human Nature, If Healthy, Demands Excitement; And If It Does Not Obtain Its Thrilling Excitement In The Right Way, It Will Seek It In The Wrong. God Never Makes Bloodless Stoics; He Makes No Passionless Saints.

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The Greatest Test Of Christianity Is The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life; It Is Like The Shining Of Silver: The More It Is Rubbed The Brighter It Grows.

In A Conflict Of Loyalty, Obey Jesus At All Costs.

The Golden Rule For Understanding Spiritually Is Not Intellect, But Obedience. If A Man Wants Scientific Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity Is His Guide; But If He Wants Insight Into What Jesus Christ Teaches, He Can Only Get It By Obedience.

Whenever The Conviction Of God's Spirit Comes There Is The Softening Of The Whole Nature To Obey; But If The Obedience Is Not Instant There Will Come A Metallic Hardening And A Corrupting Of The Guidance Of God.

One Of The Greatest Strains In Life Is The Strain Of Waiting For God.

The Real Attitude Of Sin In The Heart Towards God Is That Of Being Without God; It Is Pride, The Worship Of Myself, That Is The Great Atheistic Fact In Human Life.

The Greatest Competitor Of Devotion To Jesus Is Service For Him.

Many People Begin Coming To God Once They Stop Being Religious.there's Only One Master Of The Heart-jesus, Not Religion.

If A Crisis Has Come To You On Any Front, Surrender Your Will To Jesus Absolutely And Irrevocably.

Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life. And This Is How That Suffering Happens-if We Love Someone, But Do Not Love God, We Demand Total Perfection And Righteousness From That Person, And When We Do Not Get It, We Become Cruel And Vindictive; Yet We Are Demanding Of A Human Being Which He Or She Cannot Possibly Give.

Some Of Us Are Like The Dead Sea, Always Taking In But Never Giving Out, Because We Are Not Rightly Related To The Lord Jesus.

There Is No Need To Get To A Place Of Prayer; Pray Wherever You Are.

Sorrow Burns Up A Great Amount Of Shallowness.

Faith Is Not Intelligent Understanding, Faith Is Deliberate Commitment To A Person Where I See No Way.

Happiness Is Not A Sign That We Are Right With God; Happiness Is A Sign Of Satisfaction, That Is All, And The Majority Of Us Can Be Satisfied On Too Low A Level.

It Is A Life Of Faith, Not Of Intellect And Reason, But A Life Of Knowing Who Makes Us “go.

When We Become Advocates Of A Creed, Something Dies; We Do Not Believe God, We Only Believe Our Belief About Him.

With Christ, It Is Not How Much We Give, But What We Do Not Give That Is The Real Test.

There Is Nothing Attractive About The Gospel To The Natural Man; The Only Man Who Finds The Gospel Attractive Is The Man Who Is Convicted Of Sin.

God Gives Us The Vision, Then He Takes Us Down To The Valley To Batter Us Into The Shape Of The Vision, And It Is In The Valley That So Many Of Us Faint And Give Way. Every Vision Will Be Made Real If We Will Have Patience.

Our True Character Comes Out In The Way We Pray.

God Did Not Direct His Call To Isaiah— Isaiah Overheard God Saying, ". . . Who Will Go For Us?" The Call Of God Is Not Just For A Select Few But For Everyone. Whether I Hear God’s Call Or Not Depends On The Condition Of My Ears, And Exactly What I Hear Depends Upon My Spiritual Attitude.

The Secret Of The Missionary Is...i Am His, And He Is Carrying Out His Work Through Me.

Let The Attitude Of Your Life Be A Continual Willingness To "go Out" In Dependence Upon God, And Your Life Will Have A Sacred And Inexpressible Charm About It That Is Very Satisfying To Jesus. You Must Learn To "go Out" Through Your Convictions, Creeds, Or Experiences Until You Come To The Point In Your Faith Where There Is Nothing Between Yourself And God.

When You Are Insulted, You Must Not Only Not Resent It, But You Must Make It An Opportunity To Exhibit The Son Of God In Your Life. And You Cannot Imitate The Nature Of Jesus-it Is Either In You Or It Is Not. A Personal Insult Becomes An Opportunity For A Saint To Reveal The Incredible Sweetness Of The Lord Jesus.

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