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Patience Has The Meaning Of Testing-a Thing Drawn Out And Tested, Drawn Out To The Last Strand In A Strain Without Breaking, And Ending In Sheer Joy. The Strain On A Violin String When Stretched To The Uttermost Gives It Its Strength; And The Stronger The Strain, The Finer Is The Sound Of Our Life For God, And He Never Strains More Than We Are Able To Bear.

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Patience Has The Meaning

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Patience Has The Meaning Of Testing-a Thing Drawn Out And Tested, Drawn Out To The Last Strand In A Strain Without Breaking, And Ending In Sheer Joy. The Strain On A Violin String When Stretched To The Uttermost Gives It Its Strength; And The Stronger The Strain, The Finer Is The Sound Of Our Life For God, And He Never Strains More Than We Are Able To Bear.

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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.

The Only Way We Can Be Of Use To God Is To Let Him Take Us Through The Crooks And Crannies Of Our Own Characters.

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

Forgiveness Is The Divine Miracle Of Grace. The Cost To God Was The Cross Of Christ.

Do We So Appreciate The Marvelous Salvation Of Jesus Christ That We Are Our Utmost For His Highest?

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.

Prayer Is The Vital Breath Of The Christian; Not The Thing That Makes Him Alive, But The Evidence That He Is Alive.

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

It Is Impossible To Live The Life Of A Disciple Without Definite Times Of Secret Prayer. You Will Find That The Place To Enter In Is In Your Business, As You Walk Along The Streets, In The Ordinary Ways Of Life, When No One Dreams You Are Praying, And The Reward Comes Openly, A Revival Here, A Blessing There.

At The Back Of It There Lies The Central Citadel Of Obstinacy: I Will Not Give Up My Right To Myself--the Thing God Intends You To Give Up If Ever You Are Going To Be A Disciple Of Jesus Christ.

The Test Is The Sixty Seconds Of Every Minute, And The Sixty Minutes Of Every Hour, Not Our Times Of Prayer And Devotional Meetings.

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.

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

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

God Is Not Concerned About Our Plans; He Doesn’t Ask, “do You Want To Go Through This Loss Of A Loved One, This Difficulty, Or This Defeat?” No, He Allows These Things For His Own Purpose. The Things We Are Going Through Are Either Making Us Sweeter, Better, And Nobler Men And Women, Or They Are Making Us More Critical And Fault-finding, And More Insistent On Our Own Way. The Things That Happen Either Make Us Evil, Or They Make Us More Saintly, Depending Entirely On Our Relationship With God And Its Level Of Intimacy.

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

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

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.

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.

An Unguarded Strength Is A Double Weakness.

God Will Never Reveal More Truth About Himself Until You Have Obeyed What You Know Already

To Say That 'prayer Changes Things' Is Not As Close To The Truth As Saying, 'prayer Changes Me And Then I Change Things.' God Has Established Things So That Prayer, On The Basis Of Redemption, Changes The Way A Person Looks At Things.

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

Keep Your Life So Constantly In Touch With God That His Surprising Power Can Break Through At Any Point.

The Battle Of Prayer Is Against Two Things In The Earthlies: Wandering Thoughts And Lack Of Intimacy With God's Character As Revealed In His Word. Neither Can Be Cured At Once, But They Can Be Cured By Discipline.

There Is A Vast Difference Between Devotion To A Person And Devotion To Principles Or To A Cause. Our Lord Never Proclaimed A Cause- He Proclaimed Personal Devotion To Himself. To Be A Disciple Is To Be A Devoted Bondservant Motivated By Love For The Lord Jesus.

When We Are Abandoned To God, He Works Through Us All The Time.

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

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.

Temptation Is A Suggested Short Cut To The Realization Of The Highest At Which I Aim - Not Towards What I Understand As Evil, But Towards What I Understand As Good.

There Are Not Three Stages In Spiritual Life-worship, Waiting, And Work. Some Of Us Go In Jumps Like Spiritual Frogs. We Jump From Worship To Waiting To Work. God's Idea Is That The Three Should Go Together. They Were Always Together In The Life Of Our Lord.

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

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

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

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