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One Of The Most Difficult Questions To Answer In Christian Work Is, 'what Do You Expect To Do?' You Don't Know What You Are Going To Do. The Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......hav E You Been Asking What God Is Going To Do? He Will Never Tell You. God Does Not Tell You What He Is Going To Do. He Reveals To You Who He Is.

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One Of The Most Difficult Questions To Answer In Christian Work Is, 'what Do You Expect To Do?' You Don't Know What You Are Going To Do. The Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......hav E You Been Asking What God Is Going To Do? He Will Never Tell You. God Does Not Tell You What He Is Going To Do. He Reveals To You Who He Is.

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Watch Your Motive Before God; Have No Other Motive In Prayer Than To Know Him.

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.

We Are Not Built For The Mountains And The Dawns And Aesthetic Affinities, Those Are For Moments Of Inspiration, That Is All. We Are Built For The Valley, For The Ordinary Stuff We Are In, And That Is Where We Have To Prove Our Mettle. Spiritual Selfishness Always Wants Repeated Moments On The Mount. We Feel We Could Talk Like Angels And Live Like Angels, If Only We Could Stay On The Mount. The Times Of Exaltation Are Exceptional, They Have Their Meaning In Our Life With God, But We Must Beware Lest Our Spiritual Selfishness Wants To Make Them The Only Time.

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

The Great Paralysis Of Our Heart Is Unbelief.

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

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.

As Soon As We Abandon Ourselves To God And Do The Task He Has Placed Closest To Us, He Begins To Fill Our Lives With Surprises.

When We Pray "in The Name Of Jesus" The Answers Are In Accordance With His Nature, And If We Think Our Prayers Are Unanswered It Is Because We Are Not Interpreting The Answer Along This Line.

It's One Thing To Go Through A Crisis Grandly, Yet Quite Another To Go Through Every Day Glorifying God When There Is No Witness, No Limelight, And No One Paying Even The Remotest Attention To Us.

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.

Get Into The Habit Of Saying, ''speak, Lord,'' And Life Will Become A Romance.

Our Lord's First Obedience Was To The Will Of His Father, Not To The Needs Of Men; The Saving Of Men Was The Natural Outcome Of His Obedience To The Father.

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

Intercessory Prayer For One Who Is Sinning Prevails. God Says So! The Will Of The Man Prayed For Does Not Come Into Question At All, He Is Connected With God By Prayer, And Prayer On The Basis Of The Redemption Sets The Connection Working And God Gives Life.

Worshipping God Is The Great Essential Of Fitness. If You Have Not Been Worshipping...when You Get To Work You Will Not Only Be Useless Yourself, But A Tremendous Hindrance To Those Who Are Associated With You.

Theology Must Work Itself Out In The Most Practical Relationships.

If A Man Cannot Prove His Religion In The Valley, It Is Not Worth Anything.

Living A Life Of Faith Means Never Knowing Where You Are Being Led - But It Does Mean Loving And Knowing The One Who Is Leading. It Is Literally A Life Of Faith, Not Of Understanding And Reason- - A Life Of Knowing Him Who Calls Us To Go.

Joy Comes From Seeing The Complete Fulfillment Of The Specific Purpose For Which I Was Created And Born Again, Not From Successfully Doing Something Of My Own Choosing.

Is He Going To Help Himself To Your Life, Or Are You Taken Up With Your Conception Of What You Are Going To Do? God Is Responsible For Our Lives, And The One Great Keynote Is Reckless Reliance Upon Him.

A Life Of Intimacy With God Is Characterized By Joy.

Intimacy With God

I Must Learn That The Purpose Of My Life Belongs To God, Not Me. God Is Using Me From His Great Personal Perspective, And All He Asks Of Me Is That I Trust Him. ... When I Stop Telling God What I Want, He Can Freely Work His Will In Me Without Any Hindrance. ... Self-pity Is Of The Devil, And If I Wallow In It I Cannot Be Used By God For His Purpose In The World.

If You Want To Be Of Use To God, Maintain The Proper Relationship With Jesus Christ By Staying Focused On Him & He Will Make Use Of You Every Minute You Live- Yet You Will Be Unaware, On The Conscious Level Of Your Life, That You Are Being Used Of Him.

Abandonment To God Is Of More Value Than Personal Holiness!

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.

It Is Better To Run The Risk Of Being Considered Indecisive, Better To Be Uncertain And Not Promise, Than To Promise And Not Fulfill.

To Be A Holy Person Means That The Elements Of Our Natural Life Experience The Very Presence Of God As They Are Providentially Broken In His Service. We Have To Be Placed Into God And Brought Into Agreement With Him Before We Can Be Broken Bread In His Hands. Stay Right With God And Let Him Do As He Likes, And You Will Find That He Is Producing The Kind Of Bread And Wine That Will Benefit His Other Children.

Prayer Is The Supreme Activity Of All That Is Noblest In Our Personality, And The Essential Nature Of Prayer Is Faith.

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.

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.

We Tend To Set Up Success In Christian Work As Our Purpose, But Our Purpose Should Be To Display The Glory Of God In Human Life, To Live A Life "hidden With Christ In God" In Our Everyday Human Conditions.

Remember Whose You Are And Whom You Serve.

Don't Waste Time Asking God To Keep You From Doing Things. Don't Do Them.

The Christian Life Is One Of Spiritual Courage And Determination Lived Out In Our Flesh

Has It Ever Dawned On You That You Are Responsible Spiritually To God For Other People?

I Have No Right To Say I Believe In God Unless I Order My Life As Under His All-seeing Eye.

We Do Not Pray At All Until We Are At Our Wits' End.

Faith Is The Inborn Capacity To See God Behind Everything.

The Characteristic Of The New Birth Is That I Yield Myself So Completely To God That Christ Is Formed In Me.

Never Make A Principle Out Of Your Experience. Allow God To Be As Creative With Others As He Is With You.

Our Lord Never Lays Down The Conditions Of Discipleship As The Conditions Of Salvation.

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

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

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

We Can Never Be Like Lillies In The Garden Unless We Have Spent Time As Bulbs In The Dark, Totally Ignored.

So Many Of Us Limit Our Praying Because We Are Not Reckless In Our Confidence In God. In The Eyes Of Those Who Do Not Know God, It Is Madness To Trust Him, But When We Pray In The Holy Spirit We Begin To Realize The Resources Of God, That He Is Our Perfect Heavenly Father, And We Are His Children.

Our Prayers Are Heard, Not Because We Are In Earnest, Not Because We Suffer, But Because Jesus Suffered.

Suppose God Wants To Teach You To Say, "i Know How To Be Abased"--are You Ready To Be Offered Up Like That? Are You Ready To Be Not So Much As A Drop In A Bucket--to Be So Hopelessly Insignificant That You Are Never Thought Of Again In Connection With The Life You Served? Are You Willing To Spend And Be Spent; Not Seeking To Be Ministered Unto, But To Minister?

We Are Here For God's Designs, Not For Our Own

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

We Pray When There's Nothing Else We Can Do; Jesus Wants Us To Pray Before We Do Anything At All.

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

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

I Have Never Met The Man I Could Despair Of After Discerning What Lies In Me Apart From The Grace Of God.

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Paul Welcomed Hearbreak, Disillusionment And Tribulation For Only One Reason - - These Things Kept Him Immovable In His Devotion To The Gospel Of God.

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

Have You Been Asking God What He Is Going To Do? He Will Never Tell You. God Does Not Tell You What He Is Going To Do; He Reveals To You Who He Is.

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

Our Circumstances Are The Means God Uses To Exhibit Just How Wonderfully Perfect And Extraordinarily Pure His Son Is.

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

Many Of Us Suffer From Temptations From Which We Have No Business To Suffer.

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

We Say, Sorrow, Disaster, Calamity. God Says, Chastening And It Sounds Sweet To Him Though It Is A Discord To Our Ears. Don't Faint When You Are Rebuked, And Don't Despise The Chastening Of The Lord. In Your Patience Possess Your Souls.

To Silence The Voice Of God Is Damnation In Time!

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

A River Reaches Places Its Source Never Knows.

It Is Much Easier To Do Something Than To Trust In God; We Mistake Panic For Inspiration.

The Most Important Aspect Of Christianity Is Not The Work We Do, But The Relationship We Maintain And The Surrounding Influence And Qualities Produced By That Relationship. That Is All God Asks Us To Give Our Attention To, And It Is The One Thing That Is Continually Under Attack.

Every Man Is Made To Reach Out Beyond His Grasp.

An Unguarded Strength Is A Double Weakness.

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

True Intercession Involves Bringing The Person, Or The Circumstance That Seems To Be Crashing In On You, Before God, Until You Are Changed By His Attitude Toward That Person Or Circumstance. People Describe Intercession By Saying, "it Is Putting Yourself In Someone Else’s Place." That Is Not True! Intercession Is Putting Yourself In God’s Place; It Is Having His Mind And His Perspective.

Today Jesus Christ Is Being Dispatched As The Figurehead Of A Religion, A Mere Example. He Is That, But He Is Infinitely More; He Is Salvation Itself, He Is The Gospel Of God.

When The Truth Is Preached, The Spirit Of God Brings Each Person Face To Face With God Himself.

Beware Of Harking Back To What You Once Were When God Wants You To Be Something You Have Never Been.

The Well Of Your Incompleteness Runs Deep, But Make The Effort To Look Away From Yourself And To Look Toward Him.

The Historic Idea That The Devil Tempts Men Had This Remarkable Effect, It Produced The Man Of Iron Who Fought; The Modern Idea Of Blaming His Heredity Or His Circumstances Produces The Man Who Gives In At Once.

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

We Tend To Use Prayer As A Last Resort, But God Wants It To Be Our First Line Of Defense. We Pray When There's Nothing Else We Can Do, But God Wants Us To Pray Before We Do Anything At All. Most Of Us Would Prefer, However, To Spend Our Time Doing Something That Will Get Immediate Results. We Don't Want To Wait For God To Resolve Matters In His Good Time Because His Idea Of 'good Time' Is Seldom In Sync With Ours.

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.

When You Have Learned To Walk In The Light Of The Lord, Bitterness And Contention Are Impossible.

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

Not Every Man Can Carry A Full Cup. Sudden Elevation Frequently Leads To Pride And A Fall. The Most Exacting Test Of All To Survive Is Prosperity.

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

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.

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.

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.

All Our Fret And Worry Is Caused By Calculating Without God.

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

If We Understood What Happens When We Use The Word Of God, We Would Use It Oftener.

Speak, Lord”; Make Time To Listen. Chastening Is More Than A Means Of Discipline, It Is Meant To Get Me To The Place Of Saying, “speak, Lord.”

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

How Many People Have You Made Homesick For God?

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

The Whole Idea Of The Prayers Of The Saints Is That God's Holiness, God's Purpose, God's Ways May Be Brought About Irrespective Of Who Comes Or Goes.

We Must Keep Ourselves In Touch, Not With Theories, But With People. We Must Never Get Out Of Touch With Them If We Are Going To Use The Word Of God Skillfully Amongst Them And If The Holy Spirit Is To Apply The Word Of God Through Us.

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.

Some Prayers Are Followed By Silence (from God) Because They Are Wrong, Others Because They Are Bigger Than One Can Understand. It Will Be A Wonderful Moment For Some Of Us When We Stand Before God And Find That The Prayers We Clamored For In Early Days And Imagined Were Never Answered, Have Been Answered In The Most Amazing Way, And That God's Silence Has Been The Sign Of The Answer.

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

The Proof That Our Relationship Is Right With God Is That We Do Our Best Whether We Feel Inspired Or Not.

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

Faith Never Knows Where It Is Being Led, It Knows And Loves The One Who Is Leading. Faith Is Not Resignation To A Power We Do Not Know; Faith Is Committal To One Whose Character We Do Know Because It Has Been Revealed To Us In Jesus Christ.

What Is The Sign Of A Friend? Is It That He Tells You His Secret Sorrows? No, It Is That He Tells You His Secret Joys. Many People Will Confide Their Secret Sorrows To You, But The Final Mark Of Intimacy Is When They Share Their Secret Joys With You.

Holiness, Not Happiness, Is The Chief End Of Man.

The Whole Meaning Of Prayer Is That We May Know 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.'

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

There Is Only One Way By Which I Can Get Right With God, And That Is Through The Death Of Jesus Christ. I Must Get Rid Of The Underlying Idea That I Can Ever Be Right With God Because Of My Obedience. Who Of Us Could Ever Obey God To Absolute Perfection!

We Should Always Choose Our Books As God Chooses Our Friends, Just A Bit Beyond Us, So That We Have To Do Our Level Best To Keep Up With Them.

God Is The Great Engineer, Creating Circumstances To Bring About Moments In Our Lives Of Divine Importance, Leading Us To Divine Appointments

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

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

Sometimes There Is Nothing To Obey, The Only Thing To Do Is To Maintain A Vital Connection With Jesus Christ, To See That Nothing Interferes With That.

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

A Saint Realizes That It Is God Who Engineers His Circumstances; Consequently There Are No Complaints, Only Unrestrained Surrender To Jesus.

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.

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.

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

The Goal Of Faithfulness Is Not That We Will Do Work For God, But That He Will Be Free To Do His Work Through Us. God Calls Us To His Service And Places Tremendous Responsibilitie S On Us. He Expects No Complaining On Our Part And Offers No Explanation On His Part. God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son.

A Ready Person Never Needs To Get Ready.

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.

As Christians We Are Not Out For Our Own Cause At All, We Are Out For The Cause Of God, Which Can Never Be Our Cause. We Do Not Know What God Is After, But We Have To Maintain Our Relationship With Him Whatever Happens.

Our Relationship

Faith Never Knows Where It Is Being Led, But It Loves And Knows The One Who Is Leading.

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.

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.

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

We Are Uncertain Of The Next Step, But We Are Certain Of God. Immediately We Abandon To God, And Do The Duty That Lies Nearest, And He Packs Our Life With Surprises All The Time.... Leave The Whole Thing To Him, It Is Gloriously Uncertain How He Will Come In, But He Will Come.

When You Fear God You Fear Nothing Else!

We Must Learn To Tell Ourselves The Truth On The Basis Of God’s Word.

Trust God, And Do The Next Thing.

The True Expression Of Christian Character Is Not In Good-doing But In God-likeness.

Seeing Is Never Believing: We Interpret What We See In The Light Of What We Believe. Faith Is Confidence In God Before You See God Emerging, Therefore The Nature Of Faith Is That It Must Be Tried.

Our Lord Never Referred To Unanswered Prayer. He Taught That Prayers Are Always Answered: “everyone Who Asks Receives”. And He Implied That Prayers Are Answered Rightly Because Of The Heavenly Father's Wisdom: “your Father Knows The Things You Have Need Of Before You Ask Him”.

It Is Easier To Serve God Without A Vision, Easier To Work For God Without A Call, Because Then You Are Not Bothered By What God Requires; Common Sense Is Your Guide, Veneered Over With Christian Sentiment. You Will Be More Prosperous And Successful, More Leisure-hearted, If You Never Realize The Call Of God.

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.

Satan Tried To Put Jesus Christ On The Way To Becoming King Of The World And Savior Of Men In A Way Other Than That Predetermined By God.

What A Blessed Habit I Have Found My Prayer List, Morning By Morning, It Takes Me Via The Throne Of All Grace Straight To The Intimate Personal Heart Of Each One Mentioned Here, And I Know That He Who Is Not Prescribed By Time And Geography Answers Immediately.

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".

Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God.

If I Obey Jesus Christ, The Redemption Of God Will Flow Through Me To The Lives Of Others, Because Behind The Deed Of Obedience Is The Reality Of Almighty God.

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

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

Impossible Things

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.

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

Not Often, But Every Once In A While, God Brings Us To A Major Turning Point — A Great Crossroads In Our Life.

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.

Measure Your Growth In Grace By Your Sensitiveness To Sin.

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

Never Be Diplomatic And Careful About The Treasure God Gives. This Is Poverty Triumphant.

A Hypocrite Is One Who Plays Two Parts Consciously For His Own Ends. When We Find Fault With Other People We May Be Quite Sincere, And Yet Jesus Says In Reality We Are Frauds.

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

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

Christian Inspirational

The Way To Grow Strong In Christ Is To Become Weak In Yourself.

Keep Your Life In Its Constant Contact With God That His Surprising Power May Break Out On The Right Hand And On The Left. Always Be In A State Of Expectancy, And See That You Leave Room For God To Come In As He Likes.

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 Become So Self-centered That We Go To God Only For Something From Him, And Not For God Himself.

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.

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.

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

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.

You Say, "but He Has Not Answered." He Has, He Is So Near To You That His Silence Is The Answer. His Silence Is Big With Terrific Meaning That You Cannot Understand Yet, But Presently You Will.

Never Forget That Our Capacity And Capability In Spiritual Matters Is Measured By, And Based On, The Promises Of God.

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

Prayer Is God's Answer To Our Poverty, Not A Power We Exercise To Obtain An Answer.

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

It Is A Joy To Jesus When A Person Takes Time To Walk More Intimately With Him. The Bearing Of Fruit Is Always Shown In Scripture To Be A Visible Result Of An Intimate Relationship With Jesus Christ.

Intimate Relationships

Love For The Lord Is Not An Ethereal, Intellectual, Dreamlike Thing; It Is The Intensest, Most Vital, Most Passionate Love Of Which The Human Heart Is Capable.

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

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

It Is Impossible To Get Exhausted In Work For God. We Get Exhausted Because We Try To Do God's Work In Our Own Way.

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

It Is Much Easier To Do Something Than To Trust In God. That Is Why There Are So Few Fellow Workers With God And So Many Workers For Him. We Would Far Rather Work For God Than Believe In Him.

Which Are The People Who Have Influenced Us Most? Not The Ones Who Thought They Did, But Those Who Had Not The Remotest Notion That They Were Influencing Us. In The Christian Life, The Implicit Is Never Conscious, If It Is Conscious It Ceases To Have This Unaffected Loveliness Which Is The Characteristic Of The Touch Of Jesus. We Always Know When Jesus Is At Work Because He Produces In The Commonplace Something That Is Inspiring.

Beware Of Any Belief That Makes You Self-indulgent; It Came From The Pit, No Matter How Beautiful It Sounds.

The Marvel Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Can Never Get To The Bottom Of His Love. Paul Did Not Say That God Separated Him To Show What A Wonderful Man He Could Make Of Him, But To "to Reveal His Son In Me

My Personal Life May Be Crowded With Small Petty Incidents, Altogether Unnoticeable And Mean; But If I Obey Jesus Christ In The Haphazard Circumstances, They Become Pinholes Through Which I See The Face Of God, And When I Stand Face To Face With God I Will Discover That Through My Obedience Thousands Were Blessed. When Once God's Redemption Comes To The Point Of Obedience In A Human Soul, It Always Creates. If I Obey Jesus Christ, The Redemption Of God Will Rush Through Me To Other Lives, Because Behind The Deed Of Obedience Is The Reality Of Almighty God.

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.

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.

God Has One Destined End For Mankind - Holiness! His One Aim Is The Production Of Saints. God Is Not An Eternal Blessing-machine For Men. He Did Not Come To Save Men Out Of Pity. He Came To Save Men Because He Had Created Them To Be Holy.

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.

Perseverance Is More Than Endurance. It Is Endurance Combined With Absolute Assurance And Certainty That What We Are Looking For Is Going To Happen.

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.

Jesus Christ Demands The Same Unrestrained, Adventurous Spirit In Those Who Have Placed Their Trust In Him That The Natural Man Exhibits. If A Person Is Ever Going To Do Anything Worthwhile, There Will Be Times When He Must Risk Everything By His Leap In The Dark.

Satan Does Not Tempt Us Just To Make Us Do Wrong Things- He Tempts Us To Make Us Lose What God Has Put Into Us Through Regeneration, Namely, The Possibility Of Being Of Value To God.

God Seems To Have A Delightful Way Of Upsetting The Things We Have Calculated On Without Taking Him Into Account. We Get Into Circumstances Which Were Not Chosen By God, And Suddenly We Find We Have Been Calculating Without God; He Has Not Entered In As A Living Factor. The One Thing That Keeps Us From The Possibility Of Worrying Is Bringing God In As The Greatest Factor In All Our Calculations.

But The Miracle Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Offender Can Never Exhaust The Depths Of His Love.

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.

Our Ordinary Abilities Will Never Worship God Unless They Are Transformed By The Indwelling Son Of God.

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

When We Are Consciously Aware Of Being Used As Broken Bread And Poured Out Wine, We Have Yet Another Level To Reach - A Level Where All Awareness Of Ourselves And What God Is Doing Through Us Is Completely Eliminated. A Saint Is Never Consciously A Saint - A Saint Is Consciously Dependent On God.

When You Meet A Man Or Woman Who Puts Jesus Christ First, Knit That One To Your Soul.

Beware Of Bartering The Word Of God For A More Suitable Conception Of Your Own.

We Imagine That Whatever Is Unpleasant Is Our Duty! Is That Anything Like The Spirit Of Our Lord, "i *delight* To Do Thy Will, O My God.

'i Have Chosen You!' Keep That Note Of Greatness In Your Creed. It Is Not That You Have Got God But That He Has Got You.

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.

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William F. Buckley, Jr.

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