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If You Are Going To Be Used By God, He Will Take You Through A Number Of Experiences That Are Not Meant For You Personally At All. They Are Designed To Make You Useful In His Hands, And To Enable You To Understand What Takes Place In The Lives Of Others.

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If You Are Going To Be Used By God, He Will Take You Through A Number Of Experiences That Are Not Meant For You Personally At All. They Are Designed To Make You Useful In His Hands, And To Enable You To Understand What Takes Place In The Lives Of Others.

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We Are Apt To Think That Everything That Happens To Us Is To Be Turned Into Useful Teaching; It Is To Be Turned Into Something Better Than Teaching, Into Character. We Shall Find That The Spheres God Brings Us Into Are Not Meant To Teach Us Something But To Make Us Something.

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Am I Prepared To Let God Grip Me By His Power And Do A Work In Me That Is Worthy Of Himself? Sanctification Is Not My Idea Of What I Want God To Do For Me; Sanctification Is God's Idea Of What He Wants To Do For Me, And He Has To Get Me Into The Attitude Of Mind And Spirit Where At Any Cost I Will Let Him Sanctify Me Wholly.

We Think Rightly Or Wrongly About Prayer According To The Conception We Have In Our Minds Of Prayer. If We Think Of Prayer As The Breath In Our Lungs And The Blood From Our Hearts, We Think Rightly. The Blood Flows Ceaselessly, And Breathing Continues Ceaselessly; We Are Not Conscious Of It, But It Is Always Going On. We Are Not Always Conscious Of Jesus Keeping Us In Perfect Joint With God, But If We Are Obeying Him, He Always Is.

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I Am Called To Live In Such A Perfect Relationship With God That My Life Produces A Yearning For God In The Lives Of Others, Not Admiration For Myself. Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God. God’s Purpose Is Not To Perfect Me To Make Me A Trophy In His Showcase; He Is Getting Me To The Place Where He Can Use Me. Let Him Do What He Wants.

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All Christians Have The Spirit Of Christ, But Not All Christians Have The Mind Of Christ.

The Greatest Need We Have Is Not To Do Things, But To Believe Things.

The Cross Is The Central Event In Time And Eternity, And The Answer To All The Problems Of Both.

The Good Is Always The Enemy Of The Best.

Utmost For His Highest

In The Spiritual Domain, Criticism Is Love Turned Sour... If Criticism Becomes A Habit, It Will Destroy The Moral Energy Of The Life And Paralyze The Spiritual Force... Whenever You Are In A Critical Temper, It Is Impossible To Enter Into Communion With God. Criticism Makes You Hard And Vindictive And Cruel, And Leaves You With The Flattering Unction That You Are A Superior Person. It Is Impossible To Develop The Characteristics Of A Saint And Maintain A Critical Attitude.

There Is Nothing More Certain In Time Or Eternity Than What Jesus Christ Did On The Cross.

Anything That Belittles Or Obliterates The Holiness Of God By A False View Of The Love Of God, Is Untrue To The Revelation Of God Given By Jesus Christ.

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.

We Are In Danger Of Being Stern Where God Is Tender, And Of Being Tender Where God Is Stern.

The Disciple Is Rich Not In Possessions, But In Personal Identity.

Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Always Look For Justice In This World, But There Is No Such Thing As Justice. Jesus Says — Never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Give It.

The One Thing That Remains Is Looking In The Face Of God For Ourselves.

To Silence The Voice Of God Is Damnation In Time!

There Are Many Things That Are Perfectly Legitimate, But If You Are Going To Concentrate On God You Cannot Do Them.

And It Is Not Repentance That Saves Me — Repentance Is Only The Sign That I Realize What God Has Done Through Christ Jesus.

No Matter Who Or What We Are, God Restores Us To Right Standing With Himself Only By Means Of The Death Of Jesus Christ.

Once We See Jesus, The Impossible Things He Does In Our Lives Become As Natural As Breathing.

Impossible Things

Our Lord’s Making Of A Disciple Is Supernatural. He Does Not Build On Any Natural Capacity Of Ours At All. God Does Not Ask Us To Do The Things That Are Naturally Easy For Us- He Only Asks Us To Do The Things That We Are Perfectly Fit To Do Through His Grace, And That Is Where The Cross We Must Bear Will Always Come.

Certainty Is The Mark Of The Commonsense Life-gracious Uncertainty Is The Mark Of The Spiritual Life.

If You Have Had No Tension In Your Life, Never Been Screwed Up By Problems, Your Mortality Well Within Your Own Grasp, And Someone Tells You That God So Loved You That He Gave His Son To Die For You, Nothing But Good Manners Will Keep You From Being Amused.

God Works This Unspeakable Mystery Of Entire Sanctification In Your Life And Mine. People Try To Seek The Experience Of Entire Sanctification In Ways Other Than God's Way; But The Wonderful Spirit Of God Will Remove Confusion And Enable Us To See That The Only Means To Obtain The Experience Of Entire Sanctification By Faith Is The Grace Of God.

God's "nothings" Are His Most Positive Answers. We Have To Stay On God And Wait. Never Try To Help God To Fulfill His Word.

Let God Fling You Out (as Seed), And Do Not Go Until He Does. If You Select Your Own Spot, You Will Prove An Empty Pod. If God Sows You, You Will Bring Forth Fruit.

We Shall Find That The Spheres God Brings Us Into Are Not Meant To Teach Us Something But To Make Us Something.

Very Few Of Us Know Anything About Loyalty To Christ -- For My Sake. It Is That Which Makes The Iron Saint.

Sanctification Is Not My Idea Of What I Want God To Do For Me; Sanctification Is God’s Idea Of What He Wants To Do For Me.

Every God-given Vision Will Become Real If We Will Only Have Patience.

We Preach To Men As If They Were Conscious They Were Dying Sinners, They Are Not; They Are Having A Good Time.

The Secret Of Christian Quietness Is Not Indifference, But The Knowledge That God Is My Father, He Loves Me, And I Shall Never Think Of Anything He Will Forget. With This Knowledge, Worry Becomes An Impossibility.

When Once You Realize All That It Cost God To Forgive You, You Will Be Held As In A Vice, Constrained By The Love Of God.

Never Run Away With The Idea That It Doesn't Matter Much What We Believe Or Think; It Does. What We Believe And Think, We Are; Not What We Say We Believe And Think, But What We Really Do Believe And Think, We Are; There Is No Divorce At All.

Character In A Saint Means The Disposition Of Jesus Christ Persistently Manifested.

The Battle Is Lost Or Won In The Secret Places Of The Will Before God, Never First In The External World.

It Is Possible To Know All About Doctrine And Yet Not Know Jesus. The Soul Is In Danger When Knowledge Of Doctrine Outsteps Intimate Touch With Jesus. ....have I A Personal History With Jesus Christ? The One Sign Of Discipleship Is Intimate Connection With Him, A Knowledge Of Jesus Christ Nothing Can Shake.

The Only Basis On Which To Work For God Is An Esteemed Appreciation Of His Deliverance.

Make Converts To Your Own Thoughts And Opinions.

Having The Reality Of God's Presence Is Not Dependent On Our Being In A Particular Circumstance Or Place, But Is Only Dependent On Our Determination To Keep The Lord Before Us Continually.

If My Ruling Disposition Is Self-interest, I Perceive That Everything That Happens To Me Is Always For Or Against My Self-interest; If, On The Other Hand, My Ruling Disposition Is Obedience To God, I Perceive Him To Be At Work For My Perfecting In Everything That Happens To Me.

Whenever The Insistence Is On The Point That God Answers Prayer, We Are Off The Track. The Meaning Of Prayer Is That We Get Hold Of God, Not Of The Answer.

The Real Test Of A Saint Is Not One's Willingness To Preach The Gospel, But One's Willingness To Do Something Like Washing The Disciples' Feet - That Is, Being Willing To Do Those Things That Seem Unimportant In Human Estimation But Count As Everything To God.

The Only Right A Christian Has Is The Right To Give Up His Rights.

Spiritual Maturity Is Not Reached By The Passing Of The Years, But By Obedience To The Will Of God. Some People Mature Into An Understanding Of God’s Will More Quickly Than Others Because They Obey More Readily; They More Readily Sacrifice The Life Of Nature To The Will Of God.

I Have To Get To The Point Of The Absolute And Unquestionable Relationship That Takes Everything Exactly As It Comes From Him. God Never Guides Us At Some Time In The Future, But Always Here And Now. Realize That The Lord Is Here Now, And The Freedom You Receive Is Immediate.

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.

If God Has Made Your Cup Sweet, Drink It With Grace; If He Has Made It Bitter, Drink It In Communion With Him.

Earnestness Is Not By Any Means Everything; It Is Very Often A Subtle Form Of Pious Pride Because It Is Obsessed With The Method And Not With The Master.

The Center Of Salvation Is The Cross Of Jesus, And The Reason It Is So Easy To Obtain Salvation Is Because It Cost God So Much.

It Never Cost A Disciple Anything To Follow Jesus; To Talk About Cost When You Are In Love With Anyone Is An Insult.

Prayer Does Not Fit Us For The Greater Work; Prayer Is The Greater Work.

If We Simply Preach The Effects Of Redemption In The Human Life Instead Of The Revealed, Divine Truth Regarding Jesus Himself, The Result Is Not New Birth In Those Who Listen. The Result Is {only} A Refined Religious Lifestyle . . . We Must Make Sure That We Are Living In Such Harmony With God That As We Proclaim His Truth He Can Create In Others Those Things Which He Alone Can Do.

God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son

If We Were Never Depressed We Should Not Be Alive; It Is The Nature Of A Crystal Never To Be Depressed.

Our Natural Virtues Can Never Come Anywhere Near What Jesus Christ Wants.

One Of The Most Amazing Revelations Of God Comes To Us When We Learn That It Is In The Everyday Things Of Life That We Realize The Magnificent Deity Of Jesus Christ.

Everyday Things

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

The Bible Is Not A Book That You Can Open And Say, 'now, Lord, Put Some Magic Into My Soul That Will Open Up The Meaning Of This Book.' There Is Only One Way Really To Understand The Word, And That Is Through Wrestling With The Circumstances And Happenings Of Life.

Sin Is Not Wrong Doing, It Is Wrong Being, Deliberate And Emphatic Independence Of God.

God Places His Saints Where They Will Bring The Most Glory To Him, And We Are Totally Incapable Of Judging Where That May Be.

God Judges Us On The Basis Of The Miraculous Atonement By The Cross Of Christ.

My Unrestrained Commitment Of Myself To God Gives The Holy Spirit The Opportunity To Grant To Me The Holiness Of Jesus Christ.

One Of The Most Subtle Burdens God Ever Puts On Us As Saints Is This Burden Of Discernment Concerning Other Souls. He Reveals Things In Order That We May Take The Burden Of These Souls Before Him And Form The Mind Of Christ About Them. It Is Not That We Bring God Into Touch With Our Minds, But That We Rouse Ourselves Until God Is Able To Convey His Mind To Us About The One For Whom We Intercede.

How Many People Have You Made Homesick For God?

Our Lord Did Not Say It Was Wrong To Pray In The Corners Of The Street, But He Did Say It Was Wrong To Have The Motive To "be Seen Of Men".

God Rarely Allows A Person To See How Great A Blessing He Is To Others.

Many Of Us Have A Mental Conception Of What A Christian Should Be, And The Lives Of The Saints Become A Hindrance To Our Concentration On God.

Beware Of Reasoning About God's Word - Obey It.

The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is Not--do Your Duty, But--do What Is Not Your Duty. It Is Not Your Duty To Go The Second Mile, To Turn The Other Cheek, But Jesus Says If We Are His Disciples We Shall Always Do These Things. There Will Be No Spirit Of--"oh, Well, I Cannot Do Any More, I Have Been So Misrepresented And Misunderstood". . . Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Are Always Looking For Justice; The Teaching Of The Sermon On The Mount Is--never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Live It.

The One Thing For Which We Are All Being Disciplined Is To Know That God Is Real. As Soon As God Becomes Real, Other People Become Shadows. Nothing That Other Saints Do Or Say Can Ever Perturb The One Who Is Built On God.

We Can All See God In Exceptional Things, But It Requires The Culture Of Spiritual Discipline To See God In Every Detail.

We Have The Idea That God Is Going To Do Some Exceptional Thing- That He Is Preparing And Equipping Us For Some Extraordinary Work In The Future. But As We Grow In His Grace We Find That God Is Glorifying Himself Here And Now, At This Very Moment. If We Have God’s Assurance Behind Us, The Most Amazing Strength Becomes Ours, And We Learn To Sing, Glorifying Him Even In The Ordinary Days And Ways Of Life.

Realize That The Lord Is Here Now, And The Freedom You Receive Is Immediate.

Nothing In Our Lives Is A Mere Insignificant Detail To God.

We Have All Had Times...when We Have Seen Things From God's Standpoint And Have Wanted To Stay There; But God Will Never Allow Us To Stay There. ...[i]t Is In The Valley Where We Live For The Glory Of God.

The Path Of Peace For Us Is To Hand Ourselves Over To God And Ask Him To Search Us, Not What We Think We Are, Or What Other People Think We Are, Or What We Persuade Ourselves We Are Or Would Like To Be, But 'search Me Out, O God, Explore Me As I Really Am In Thy Sight.'

Take Care Lest You Play The Hypocrite By Spending All Your Time Trying To Get Others Right Before You Worship God Yourself.

If Through A Broken Heart God Can Bring His Purposes To Pass In The World, Then Thank Him For Breaking Your Heart.

Have You Ever Sought God With Your Whole Heart, Or Have You Simply Given Him A Feeble Cry After Some Emotionally Painful Experience?

Painful Experiences

We Read Some Things In The Bible Three Hundred And Sixty-five Times And They Mean Nothing To Us, Then All Of A Sudden We See What God Means, Because In Some Particular We Have Obeyed God, And Instantly His Nature Is Opened Up.

For Understanding In Spiritual Matters, The Golden Rule Is Not Intellect But Obedience.

When God Gives Us A Vision, We Must Transact Business With Him At That Point, No Matter What The Cost.

Am I Learning How To Use My Bible? The Way To Become Complete For The Master’s Service Is To Be Well Soaked In The Bible; Some Of Us Only Exploit Certain Passages. Our Lord Wants To Give Us Continuous Instruction Out Of His Word; Continuous Instruction Turns Hearers Into Disciples.

Am I Becoming More And More In Love With God As A Holy God, Or With The Conception Of An Amiable Being Who Says, “oh Well, Sin Doesn’t Matter Much”?

If We Obey God It Is Going To Cost Other People More Than It Costs Us, And That Is Where The Sting Comes In. If We Are In Love With Our Lord, Obedience Does Not Cost Us Anything, It Is A Delight, But It Costs Those Who Do Not Love Him A Good Deal.

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.

As Long As We Are Flippant And Stupid And Shallow And Think That We Know Ourselves, We Shall Never Give Ourselves Over To Jesus Christ; But When Once We Become Conscious That We Are Infinitely More Than We Can Fathom, And Infinitely Greater In Possibility Either For Good Or Bad Than We Can Know, We Shall Be Only Too Glad To Hand Ourselves Over To Him.

We Trample The Blood Of The Son Of God Underfoot If We Think We Are Forgiven Because We Are Sorry For Our Sins. The Only Reason For The Forgiveness Of Our Sins By God, And The Infinite Depth Of His Promise To Forget Them, Is The Death Of Jesus Christ...no Matter Who Or What We Are, God Restores Us To Right Standing With Himself Only By Means Of The Death Of Jesus Christ...to Identify With The Death Of Jesus Christ Means That We Must Die To Everything That Was Never A Part Of Him.

If You Have Ever Prayed In The Dawn You Will Ask Yourself Why You Were So Foolish As Not To Do It Always: It Is Difficult To Get Into Communion With God In The Midst Of The Hurly-burly Of The Day.

God Does Not Exist To Answer Our Prayers, But By Our Prayers We Come To Discern The Mind Of God.

To Be 'in The Will Of God' Is Not A Matter Of Intellectual Discernment, But A State Of Heart.

We Are Not Built For Ourselves, But For God. Not For Service For God, But For God.

God Is Not Saving The World; It Is Done. Our Business Is To Get Men And Women To Realize It.

When You Are In The Dark, Listen, And God Will Give You A Very Precious Message.

A River Reaches Places Its Source Never Knows.

Faith Must Be Tested, Because It Can Be Turned Into A Personal Possession Only Through Conflict.

Am I Getting Nobler, Better, More Helpful, More Humble, As I Get Older? Am I Exhibiting The Life That Men Take Knowledge Of As Having Been With Jesus, Or Am I Getting More Self-assertive, More Deliberately Determined To Have My Own Way? It Is A Great Thing To Tell Yourself The Truth.

Jesus Christ Carries On Intercession For Us In Heaven; The Holy Ghost Carries On Intercession In Us On Earth; And We The Saints Have To Carry On Intercession For All Men.

God Can Never Make Us Wine If We Object To The Fingers He Uses To Crush Us With.

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

Be Exhausted For God, But Remember That Your Supply Comes From Him. 'all My Fresh Springs Shall Be In Thee.'

To Terrorize A Man Into Believing In God Is Never The Work Of God, But The Work Of Human Expediency. If We Want To Convince A Congregation Of A Certain Thing, We May Use Terror To Frighten Them Into It; But Never Say That Is God's Way, It Is Our Way. To Call That God's Method Is A Travesty To The Character Of God.

The Greatest Test Of A Man's Character Is His Tongue.

Every Time We Pray Our Horizon Is Altered, Our Attitude To Things Is Altered, Not Sometimes But Every Time, And The Amazing Thing Is That We Don't Pray More.

If Your Faith Is In Experiences, Anything That Happens Is Likely To Upset That Faith.

The Root Of All Sin Is The Suspicion That God Is Not Good.

Angels Cannot Preach The Gospel, Only Beings Such As Paul And You And I Can Preach The Gospel.

We Actually Slander And Dishonor God By Our Very Eagerness To Serve Him Without Knowing Him.

The Spirit Is The First Power We Practically Experience, But The Last Power We Come To Understand.

Many People Have Turned Back Because They Are Afraid To Look At Things From God's Perspective. The Greatest Spiritual Crisis Comes When A Person Has To Move A Little Farther On In His Faith Than The Beliefs He Has Already Accepted.

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

Trust No One, Not Even The Finest Saint Who Ever Walked This Earth, Ignore Him, If He Hinders Your Sight Of Jesus Christ.

The Life Of Faith Is Not A Life Of Mounting Up With Wings, But A Life Of Walking And Not Fainting.

The Prayer Of The Saints Is Never Self-important, But Always God-important.

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