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Jesus Christ Out-socialists The Socialists. He Says That In His Kingdom He That Is Greatest Shall Be The Servant Of All. The Real Test Of The Saint Is Not Preaching The Gospel, But Washing Disciples' Feet, That Is, Doing The Things That Do Not Count In The Actual Estimate Of Men But Count Everything In The Estimate Of God.

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Jesus Christ Out-socialists The Socialists. He Says That In His Kingdom He That Is Greatest Shall Be The Servant Of All. The Real Test Of The Saint Is Not Preaching The Gospel, But Washing Disciples' Feet, That Is, Doing The Things That Do Not Count In The Actual Estimate Of Men But Count Everything In The Estimate Of God.

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By Realizing The Reality Of Our Prince Within Us, We Are Never Bothered Again By The Fact That We Do Not Understand Ourselves, Or That Other People Do Not Understand Us. The Only One Who Truly Understands Me Is The One Who Made Me And Who Redeems Me... It Is A Tremendous Freedom To Get Rid Of Every Kind Of Self-consideration And Learn To Care About Only One Thing - The Relationship Between Our Prince And Ourselves.

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It Is Perilously Possible To Make Our Conceptions Of God Like Molten Lead Poured Into A Specially Designed Mould, And When It Is Cold And Hard We Fling It At The Heads Of The Religious People Who Don't Agree With Us.

Go Therefore And Make Disciples Of All The Nations

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.

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

There Is A Call To Spiritual Perseverance. A Call Not To Hang On And Do Nothing, But To Work Deliberately, Knowing With Certainty That God Will Never Be Defeated.

Only One In A Thousand Sits Down In The Midst Of It All And Says—i Will Watch My Father Mend This. God Must Not Be Treated As A Hospital For Our Broken “toys,” But As Our Father.

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.

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The Saint Is Hilarious When He Is Crushed With Difficulties Because The Thing Is So Ludicrously Impossible To Anyone But God.

God Answers Prayer On The Ground Of Redemption And On No Other Ground.

No Love Of The Natural Heart Is Safe Unless The Human Heart Has Been Satisfied By God First

The Nature Of The Spiritual Life Is That We Are Certain In Our Uncertainty.

We Think We Understand Another Person's Struggle Until God Reveals The Same Shortcomings In Our Lives.

Fretting Springs From A Determination To Get Our Own Way.

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.

Faith For My Deliverance Is Not Faith In God. Faith Means, Whether I Am Visibly Delivered Or Not, I Will Stick To My Belief That God Is Love.

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Let The Consequences Of Your Obedience Be Left Up To God.

Faith Is Deliberate Confidence In The Character Of God Whose Ways You Cannot Understand At The Time.

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

The Greatest Competitor Of Devotion To Jesus Is Service To Him. It Is Never 'do, Do' With The Lord, But 'be, Be' And He Will 'do' Through You. The Only Way To Keep True To God Is By A Steady Persistent Refusal To Be Interested In Christian Work And To Be Interested Alone In Jesus Christ.

Sincerity Means That The Appearance And The Reality Are Exactly The Same.

If We Pray Only Because We Want Answers, We Will Become Irritated And Angry With God. We Receive An Answer Every Time We Pray, But It Does Not Always Come In The Way We Expect, And Our Spiritual Irritation Shows Our Refusal To Identify Ourselves Truly With Our Lord In Prayer. We Are Not Here To Prove That God Answers Prayer, But To Be Living Trophies Of God’s Grace.

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Our Understanding Of God Is The Answer To Prayer; Getting Things From God Is God's Indulgence Of Us. When God Stops Giving Us Things, He Brings Us Into The Place Where We Can Begin To Understand Him.

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A Life Of Intimacy With God Is Characterized By Joy.

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Spiritual Character Is Only Made By Standing Loyal To God's Character, No Matter What Distress The Trial Of Faith Brings. The Distress And Agony The Prophets Experienced Was The Agony Of Believing God When Everything That Was Happening Contradicted What They Proclaimed Him To Be; There Was Nothing To Prove That God Was Just And True, But Everything To Prove The Opposite.

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

Tell God You Are Ready To Be Offered, And God Will Prove Himself To Be All You Ever Dreamed He Would Be.

If We Believe In Jesus, It Is Not What We Gain But What He Pours Through Us That Really Counts. God’s Purpose Is Not Simply To Make Us Beautiful, Plump Grapes, But To Make Us Grapes So That He May Squeeze The Sweetness Out Of Us.

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The Test Of A Man’s Religious Life And Character Is Not What He Does In The Exceptional Moments Of Life, But What He Does In The Ordinary Times, When There Is Nothing Tremendous Or Exciting On. The Worth Of A Man Is Revealed In His Attitude To Ordinary Things When He Is Not Before The Footlights.

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Your Priorities Must Be God First, God Second, And God Third, Until Your Life Is Continually Face To Face With God.

Never Water Down The Word Of God, But Preach It In Its Undiluted Sternness. There Must Be Unflinching Faithfulness To The Word Of God, But When You Come To Personal Dealings With Others, Remember Who You Are- You Are Not Some Special Being Created In Heaven, But A Sinner Saved By Grace.

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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.

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We Trample The Blood Of The Son Of God Underfoot If We Think We Are Forgiven Because We Are Sorry For Our Sins.

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

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The Institutions Of Churchianity Are Not Christianity. An Institution Is A Good Thing If It Is Second; Immediately An Institution Recognizes Itself It Becomes The Dominating Factor.

To Silence The Voice Of God Is Damnation In Time!

When Someone Thinks That To Develop A Holy Life He Must Always Be Alone With God, He Is No Longer Of Any Use To Others.

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”?

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

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I Have To Learn That The Aim In Life Is God's, Not Mine.

Naturally, We Are Inclined To Be So Mathematical And Calculating That We Look Upon Uncertainty As A Bad Thing...certainty Is The Mark Of The Common-sense Life. To Be Certain Of God Means That We Are Uncertain In All Our Ways, We Do Not Know What A Day May Bring Forth. This Is Generally Said With A Sigh Of Sadness; It Should Rather Be An Expression Of Breathless Expectation.

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When A Man Gets To Despair He Knows That All His Thinking Will Never Get Him Out. He Will Only Get Out By The Sheer Creative Effort Of God. Consequently He Is In The Right Attitude To Receive From God That Which He Cannot Gain For Himself.

If We Have Never Had The Experience Of Taking Our Commonplace Religious Shoes Off Our Commonplace Religious Feet, And Getting Rid Of All The Undue Familiarity With Which We Approach God, It Is Questionable Whether We Have Ever Stood In His Presence.

There Comes The Baffling Call Of God In Our Lives Also. The Call Of God Can Never Be Stated Explicitly; It Is Implicit. The Call Of God Is Like The Call Of The Sea, No One Hears It But The One Who Has The Nature Of The Sea In Him. It Cannot Be Stated Definitely What The Call Of God Is To, Because His Call Is To Be In Comradeship With Himself, For His Own Purposes, And The Test Is To Believe That God Knows What He Is After.

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

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There Is Actually Only One Thing You Can Dedicate To God, And That Is Your Right To Yourself. If You Will Give God Your Right To Yourself, He Will Make A Holy Experiment Out Of You - And His Experiments Always Succeed.

The Entrance Into The Kingdom Is Through The Panging Pains Of Repentance Crashing Into A Man's Respectable Goodness; Then The Holy Ghost, Who Produces These Agonies Begins The Formation Of The Son God In The Life.

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God Expects No Complaining On Our Part And Offers No Explanation On His Part.

One Great Effect Of Prayer Is That It Enables The Soul To Command The Body. By Obedience I Make My Body Submissive To My Soul, But Prayer Puts My Soul In Command Of My Body.

Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life.

We Are In Danger Of Forgetting That We Cannot Do What God Does, And That God Will Not Do What We Can Do.

Reflected Peace Is The Proof That You Are Right With God Because You Are At Liberty To Turn Your Mind To Him.

The Resentment Of Discipline Of Any Kind Will Warp The Whole Life Away From God's Purpose.

Sanctification Costs To The Extent Of "an Intense Narrowing Of All Our Interests On Earth And An Immense Broadening Of All Our Interests In God.

The Bible Does Not Thrill; The Bible Nourishes. Give Time To The Reading Of The Bible And The Recreating Effect Is As Real As That Of Fresh Air Physically.

No Power On Earth Or In Hell Can Conquer The Spirit Of God In A Human Spirit

We Must Build Our Faith Not On Fading Lights But On The Light That Never Fails.

God’s Training Is For Now, Not Presently. His Purpose Is For This Minute, Not For Something In The Future. We Have Nothing To Do With The Afterwards Of Obedience; We Can Get It Wrong When We Think Of The Afterwards. What Men Call Training And Preparation, God Calls The End… If We Realize That Obedience Is The End, Then Each Moment Is Precious.

There Is No Joy In The Soul That Has Forgotten What God Prizes.

If We Are Abandoned To Jesus We Have No Ends Of Our Own To Serve.

Beware Of Any Work For God That Causes Or Allows You To Avoid Concentrating On Him.

When We Discern That People Are Not Going On Spiritually And Allow The Discernment To Turn To Criticism, We Block Our Way To God. God Never Gives Us Discernment In Order That We May Criticize, But That We May Intercede

Our Salvation Comes To Us So Easily Because It Cost God So Much.

Grapes Become Wine Only When They Have Been Squeezed.

The Real Meaning Of Eternal Life Is A Life That Can Face Anything Is Has To Face Without Wavering. If We Take This View, Life Becomes One Great Romance, A Glorious Opportunity For Seeing Marvelous Things All The Time. God Is Disciplining Us To Get Us Into This Central Place Of Power.

Watch The Things You Say You Can't Believe, And Then Recall The Things You Accept Without Thinking, Like Your Own Existence.

No Man Has Ever Gone Through The Crisis Of Deliberately Making Jesus Lord And Found Him To Be A Failure.

The One True Mark Of A Saint Of God Is The Inner Creativity That Flows From Being Totally Surrendered To Jesus Christ.

Prayer Is Not Logical, It Is A Mysterious Moral Working Of The Holy Spirit.

God Gets Me Into A Relationship With Himself Whereby I Understand His Call, Then I Do Things Out Of Sheer Love For Him On My Own Account. To Serve God Is The Deliberate Love-gift Of A Nature That Has Heard The Call Of God.

If You Yourself Do Not Cut The Lines That Tie You To The Dock, God Will Have To Use A Storm To Sever Them And To Send You Out To Sea. You Have To Get Out Past The Harbor Into The Great Dephts Of God, And Begin To Know Things For Yourself....beg In To Have Spiritual Discernment. Beware Of Paying Attention Or Going Back To What You Once Were, When God Wants You To Be Something That You Have Never Been.

Ask God For What You Want, But You Cannot Ask If You Are Not Asking For A Right Thing. When You Draw Near To God, You Cease From Asking For Things."your Father Knows What Things You Have Need Of, Before You Ask Him." Then, Why Ask? That You May Get To Know Him.

There Is No Condition Of Life In Which We Cannot Abide In Jesus. We Have To Learn To Abide In Him Wherever We Are Placed.

Sanctification Means More Than Being Freed From Sin. It Means The Deliberate Commitment Of Myself To The God Of My Salvation, And Being Willing To Pay Whatever It May Cost.

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.

Drudgery Is One Of The Finest Touchstones Of Character There Is. Drudgery Is Work That Is Very Far Removed From Anything To Do With The Ideal - The Utterly Mean Grubby Things; And When We Come In Contact With Them We Know Instantly Whether Or Not We Are Spiritually Real.

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

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.

If God Sees That My Spiritual Life Will Be Furthered By Giving The Things For Which I Ask, Then He Will Give Them, But That Is Not The End Of Prayer. The End Of Prayer Is That I Come To Know God Himself.

God Saved Us To Make Us Holy, Not Happy. Some Experiences May Not Contribute To Our Happiness, But All Can Be Made To Contribute To Our Holiness. Vance Havner The Destined End Of Man Is Not Happiness, Nor Health, But Holiness. God's One Aim Is The Production Of Saints.

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

The Characteristic Of A Disciple Is Not That He Does Good Things, But That He Is Good In His Motives, Having Been Made Good By The Supernatural Grace Of God.

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.

Service Is The Overflow Which Pours From A Life Filled With Love And Devotion.

It Is In The Middle That Human Choices Are Made; The Beginning And The End Remain With God. The Decrees Of God Are Birth And Death, And In Between Those Limits Man Makes His Own Distress Or Joy.

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.

The Holy Ghost Is The Only One Who Can Detect The Temptations Of Satan, Neither Our Common Sense Nor Our Human Wisdom Can Detect Them As Temptations.

It Must Be God First, God Second, And God Third

Christianity Is Not Consistency To Conscience Or To Convictions; Christianity Is Being True To Jesus Christ.

Prayer Is Not A Preparation For Work, It Is Work. Prayer Is Not A Preparation For The Battle, It Is The Battle. Prayer Is Two-fold: Definite Asking And Definite Waiting To Receive.

God Speaks In The Language You Know Best - Not Through Your Ears, But Through Your Circumstances.

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.

Never Become Attached To Anything That Continues To Hurt God. For You To Be Free Of It, God Must Be Allowed To Hurt Whatever It May Be.

The Christian Who Is Truly Intimate With Jesus Will Never Draw Attention To Himself But Will Only Show The Evidence Of A Life Where Jesus Is Completely In Control. This Is The Outcome Of Allowing Jesus To Satisfy Every Area Of Life To Its Depth. The Picture Resulting From Such A Life Is That Of The Strong, Calm Balance That Our Lord Gives To Those Who Are Intimate With Him.

Before God Can Use A Man Greatly He Must Wound Him Deeply.

Be Relentless And Hard On Yourself If You Are In The Habit Of Talking About The Experiences You Have Had. Faith Based On Experience Is Not Faith; Faith Based On God’s Revealed Truth Is The Only Faith There Is.

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.

Jesus Christ Founded His Kingdom On The Weakest Link Of All-a Baby.

Perseverance Is More Than Endurance." It Is Endurance Combined With Absolute Assurance And Certainty That What We Are Looking For Is Going To Happen. Perseverance Means More Than Just Hanging On, Which May Only Be Exposing Our Fear Of Letting Go And Falling. Perseverance Is Our Supreme Effort Of Refusing To Believe That Our Hero Is Going To Be Conquered.

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

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.

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.

You May Often Have To Watch Jesus Christ Wreck A Life Before He Saves It.

Prayer Is Simple, As Simple As A Child Making Known Its Wants To It Parents.

The Sympathy Which Is Reverent With What It Cannot Understand Is Worth Its Weight In Gold.

Have I Allowed My Personal Human Life To Become A 'bethlehem' For The Son Of God?

Our Lord's Conception Of Discipleship Is Not That We Work For God, But That God Works Through Us.

In The Will Of God" Is Not A Matter Of Intellectual Discernment, But A State Of Heart... It's Motto Is --" My Father Can Do What He Likes With Me, He May Bless Me To Death, Or Give Me A Bitter Cup; I Delight To Do His Will.

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.

God Will Turn The Might Have Been Into A Wonderful Culture For The Future.

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.

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.

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.

It Is Not The Thing On Which We Spend The Most Time That Moulds Us, But The Thing That Exerts The Greatest Power. Five Minutes With God And His Word Is Worth More Than All The Rest Of The Day.

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

We Are Not Sent To Do Battle For God, But To Be Used By God In His Battles.

If We Are Obsessed By God, Nothing Else Can Get Into Our Lives - Not Concerns, Nor Tribulation, Not Worries.

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.

When You Pray, Things Remain The Same, But You Begin To Be Different. The Same Thing When A Man Falls In Love, His Circumstances And Conditions Remain The Same, But He Has A Sovereign Preference In His Heart For Another Person Which Transfigures Everything!

Falling In Love

We Must Learn To Live In The Ordinary 'gray' Day According To What We Saw On The Mountain.

No Healthy Christian Ever Chooses Suffering; He Chooses God's Will, As Jesus Did, Whether It Means Suffering Or Not.

We Have An Idea That God Is Leading Us To A Particular End, A Desired Goal; He Is Not...what We Call The Process God Calls The End. His Purpose Is That I Depend On Him And His Power Now. It Is The Process, Not The End That Is Glorifying To God.

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.

God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son

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.

Whenever You Get A Blessing From God, Give It Back To Him As A Love Gift.

Intercession Is About Putting Ourselves In Other’s Shoes Or Having Sympathy With Others. But Intercessions Are About Having The Mind Of God And See Things Through His Perspective

It Is The Unseen And The Spiritual In People That Determines The Outward And The Actual.

Beware Of Being Obsessed With Consistency To Your Own Convictions Instead Of Being Devoted To God. The Important Consistency In A Saint Is Not To A Principle But To The Divine Life. It Is Easier To Be An Excessive Fanatic Than It Is To Be Consistently Faithful, Because God Causes An Amazing Humbling Of Our Religious Conceit When We Are Faithful To Him.

Prayer Is Not Getting Things From God. That Is A Most Initial Stage; Prayer Is Getting Into Perfect Communion With God: I Tell Him What I Know He Knows In Order That I May Get To Know It As He Does.

Too Often We Treat Prayer As The Preparation For The Work Of The Church. Do You Not See? Prayer Is The Work Of The Church.

Make The Determination To Abide In Jesus Wherever You Are Now Or Wherever You May Be Placed In The Future.

Self Pity Is Of The Devil, And If I Wallow In It, I Cannot Be Used By God For His Purpose In The World.

Your God May Be Your Little Christian Habit - The Habit Of Prayer Or Bible Reading At Certain Times Of Your Day. Watch How Your Father Will Upset Your Schedule If You Begin To Worship Your Habit Instead Of What The Habit Symbolizes. We Say, 'i Can't Do That Right Now; This Is My Time Alone With God.' No, This Is Your Time Alone With Your Habit.

God's Grace Turns Out Men And Women With A Strong Family Likeness To Jesus Christ, Not Milksops.

The Height Of The Mountaintop Is Measured By The Drab Drudgery Of The Valley.

Beware Of Making A Fetish Of Consistency To Your Convictions Instead Of Being Devoted To God.

If You Are Going Through A Time Of Discouragement, There Is A Time Or Great Personal Growth Ahead.

Solitude With God Repairs The Damage Done By The Fret And Noise And Clamour Of The World.

Grace Is The Overflowing Favor Of God, And You Can Always Count On It Being Available To Draw Upon As Needed.

If Our Hopes Are Being Disappointed Just Now, It Means They Are Being Purified.

Being Disappointed

If We Are Going To Live As Disciples Of Jesus, We Have To Remember That All Noble Things Are Difficult.

My Worth To God In Public Is What I Am In Private.

When God Gives A Vision, Transact Business On That Line, No Matter What It Costs.

If For One Whole Day, Quietly And Determinedly, We Were To Give Ourselves Up To The Ownership Of Jesus And To Obeying His Orders, We Should Be Amazed At Its Close To Realize All He Had Packed Into That One Day.

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

Wherever There Is Any Element Of Pride Or Of Conceit, Jesus Cannot Expound A Thing. He Will Take Us Through The Disappointment Of A Wounded Pride Of Intellect, Through Disappointment Of Heart. He Will Reveal Inordinate Affections-thin Gs Over Which We Never Thought He Would Have To Get Us Alone.

For One Man Who Can Introduce Another To Jesus Christ By The Way He Lives And By The Atmosphere Of His Life, There Are A Thousand Who Can Only Talk Jargon About Him

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.

Sin Is Blatant Mutiny Against God, And Either Sin Or God Must Die In My Life.

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