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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.

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Never Run Away With

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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.

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Be Persistent With Your Disturbance Until You Get Face To Face With The Lord Himself. Don't Deify Common Sense.

Quit Praying About Yourself And Spend Your Life For The Sake Of Others As The Bondservant Of Jesus. That Is The True Meaning Of Being Broken Bread And Poured-out Wine In Real Life.

The Nature Of Faith Is That It Must Be Tried.

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It Is Better To Enter Into Life Maimed But Lovely In God’s Sight Than To Appear Lovely To Man’s Eyes But Lame To God’s.

At Times God Puts Us Through The Discipline Of Darkness To Teach Us To Heed Him. Song Birds Are Taught To Sing In The Dark, And We Are Put Into The Shadow Of God’s Hand Until We Learn To Hear Him.

Some Of The Qualities Of #‎ God Must Be Merged Into Us Before Our #‎ Prayers Can Be Fit For His Acceptance.

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.

The Vision That God Gives Is Not Some Unattainable Castle In The Sky, But A Vision Of What God Wants You To Be Down Here.

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.

A River Reaches Places Which Its Source Never Knows. And Jesus Said That, If We Have Received His Fullness, "rivers Of Living Water" Will Flow Out Of Us, Reaching In Blessing Even "to The End Of The Earth" Regardless Of How Small The Visible Effects Of Our Lives May Appear To Be.

Confidence In The Natural World Is Self-reliance; In The Spiritual World, It Is God-reliance.

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.

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

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.

Think Of The Enormous Leisure Of God! He Is Never In A Hurry. We Are Always In Such A Frantic Hurry. In The Light Of The Glory Of The Vision We Go Forth To Do Things, But The Vision Is Not Real In Us Yet; And God Has To Take Us Into The Valley, And Put Us Through Fires And Floods To Batter Us Into Shape, Until We Get To The Place Where He Can Trust Us.... Let Him Put You On His Wheel And Whirl You As He Likes, And As Sure As God Is God And You Are You, You Will Turn Out Exactly In Accordance With The Vision. Don't Lose Heart In The Process.

You Will Never Cease To Be The Most Amazed Person On Earth At What God Has Done For You On The Inside.

Christian Inspirational

Our Lord’s Teaching Is Always Anti-self-realization. His Purpose Is Not The Development Of A Man; His Purpose Is To Make A Man Exactly Like Himself, And The Characteristic Of The Son Of God Is Self-expenditure.

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

The Great Enemy Of The Life Of Faith In God Is Not Sin, But The Good Which Is Not Good Enough. The Good Is Always The Enemy Of The Best.

Not Good Enough

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

The Voice Of The Spirit Is As Gentle As A Zephyr, So Gentle That Unless You Are Living In Perfect Communion With God, You Never Hear It.

We Must Never Put Our Dreams Of Success As God's Purpose For Us; His Purpose May Be Exactly The Opposite. His Purpose Is That I Depend On Him And In His Power Now. His End Is The Process. It Is The Process, Not The End, Which Is Glorifying To God....his Purpose Is For This Minute, Not For Something In The Future. We Have Nothing To Do With The 'afterwards' Of Obedience. If We Have A Further End In View, We Do Not Pay Sufficient Attention To The Immediate Present; If We Realize That Obedience Is The End, Then Each Moment As It Comes Is Precious.

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.

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

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Theology Must Work Itself Out In The Most Practical Relationships.

The Soul Is In Danger When Knowledge Of Doctrine Outsteps Intimate Touch With Jesus.

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.

Measure Your Growth In Grace By Your Sensitiveness To Sin.

It Is Not What A Man Does That Is Of Final Importance, But What He Is In What He Does. The Atmosphere Produced By A Man, Much More Than His Activities, Has The Lasting Influence.

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Trust God, And Do The Next Thing.

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The Thing That Awakens The Deepest Fountain Of Gratitude In A Human Being Is That God Has Forgiven His Sin.

A Private Relationship Of Worshiping God Is The Greatest Essential Element Of Spiritual Fitness.

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.

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

You Can Never Argue Anyone Into The Kingdom Of Heaven, You Cannot Argue Anyone Anywhere. The Only Result Of Arguing Is To Prove To Your Own Mind That You Are Right And The Other Fellow Wrong. You Cannot Argue For Truth; But Immediately Incarnate Truth Is Presented, A Want Awakens In The Soul Which Only God Can Meet.

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.

We Must Build Our Faith Not On Fading Lights But On The Light That Never Fails. When 'important' Individuals Go Away We Are Sad, Until We See That They Are Meant To Go, So That Only One Thing Is Left For Us To Do--to Look Into The Face Of God For Ourselves.

I Have To Learn That The Aim In Life Is God's, Not Mine. God Is Using Me From His Great Personal Standpoint, And All He Asks Of Me Is That I Trust Him, And Never Say — Lord, This Gives Me Such Heart-ache.

If You Will Receive Yourself In The Fires Of Sorrow, God Will Make You Nourishment For Other People.

All Of God’s People Are Ordinary People Who Have Been Made Extraordinary By The Purpose He Has Given Them.

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.

You Must Learn To Wrestle Against The Things That Hinder Your Communication With God.

Communication With God

We Are In Danger Of Forgetting That We Cannot Do What God Does, And That God Will Not Do What We Can Do. We Cannot Save Ourselves Nor Sanctify Ourselves, God Does That; But God Will Not Give Us Good Habits, He Will Not Give Us Character, He Will Not Make Us Walk Aright. We Have To Do All That Ourselves.

One Of The Greatest Snares Is The Number Of Good Things We Might Do. Jesus Christ Never Did The Good Things He Might Have Done, He Did Everything He Ought To Do Because He Had His Eye Fixed On His Father's Will And He Sacrificed Himself For His Father.

Sanctification Means Being Made One With Jesus So That The Disposition That Ruled Him Will Rule Us. It Will Cost Everything That Is Not Of God In Us.

Yielding To Jesus Will Break Every Form Of Slavery In Any Human Life.

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

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.

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.

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

Never Consider Whether You Are Of Use; But Ever Consider That You Are Not Your Own But His.

Every Man Is Made To Reach Out Beyond His Grasp.

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

If Sympathy Is All That Human Beings Need, Then The Cross Of Christ Is An Absurdity And There Is Absolutely No Need For It. What The World Needs Is Not "a Little Bit Of Love," But Major Surgery. If You Think You Are Helping Lost People With Your Sympathy And Understanding, You Are A Traitor To Jesus Christ. You Must Have A Right-standing Relationship With Him Yourself, And Pour Your Life Out In Helping Others In His Way— Not In A Human Way That Ignores God.

To Be Obsessed By God Is To Have An Effective Barricade Against All The Assaults Of The Enemy.

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

We Are Not To Preach The Doing Of Good Things; Good Deeds Are Not To Be Preached, They Are To Be Performed.

Beware Of Giving Over To Mere Dreaming When Once God Has Spoken. Leave Him To Be The Source Of All Your Dreams And Joys And Delights, And Go Out And Obey What He Has Said. If You Are In Love, You Do Not Sit Down And Dream About The One You Love All The Time, You Go And Do Something For Him; And That Is What Jesus Christ Expects Us To Do. Dreaming After God Has Spoken Is An Indication That We Do Not Trust Him.

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

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

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.

Discipleship Is Based Solely On Devotion To Jesus Christ, Not On Following After A Particular Belief Or Doctrine.

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.

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

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.

Prayer Is Not An Exercise, It Is The Life.

How Many People Have You Made Homesick For God?

The Author Who Benefits You Most Is Not The One Who Tells You Something You Did Not Know Before, But The One Who Gives Expression To The Truth That Has Been Dumbly Struggling In You For Utterance.

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.

We Impoverish God In Our Minds When We Say There Must Be Answers To Our Prayers On The Material Plane; The Biggest Answers To Our Prayers Are In The Realm Of The Unseen.

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.

We Are Only What We Are In The Dark; All The Rest Is Reputation.

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