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Patience Is More Than Endurance. A Saint's Life Is In The Hands Of God Like A Bow And Arrow In The Hands Of An Archer. God Is Aiming At Something The Saint Cannot See, And He Stretches And Strains, And Every Now And Again The Saint Says--'i Cannot Stand Anymore.' God Does Not Heed, He Goes On Stretching Till His Purpose Is In Sight, Then He Lets Fly. Trust Yourself In God's Hands. Maintain Your Relationship To Jesus Christ By The Patience Of Faith. 'though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust In Him.

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Patience Is More Than Endurance. A Saint's Life Is In The Hands Of God Like A Bow And Arrow In The Hands Of An Archer. God Is Aiming At Something The Saint Cannot See, And He Stretches And Strains, And Every Now And Again The Saint Says--'i Cannot Stand Anymore.' God Does Not Heed, He Goes On Stretching Till His Purpose Is In Sight, Then He Lets Fly. Trust Yourself In God's Hands. Maintain Your Relationship To Jesus Christ By The Patience Of Faith. 'though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust In Him.

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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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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.

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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.

When We Touch The Foundation Of The Reality Of The Good News Of God, We Will Never Bother Him Anymore With Little Personal Complaints.

Prayer Is The Practice Of Drawing On The Grace Of God. Don't Say, "i Will Endure This Until I Can Get Away And Pray." Pray Now - Draw On The Grace Of God In Your Moment Of Need. Prayer Is The Most Normal And Useful Thing; It Is Not Simply A Reflex Action Of Your Devotion To God. We Are Very Slow To Learn To Draw On God's Grace Through Prayer.

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

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

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

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

Have You Ever Realized That You Can Give Things To God That Are Of Value To Him? Or Are You Just Sitting Around Daydreaming About The Greatness Of His Redemption, While Neglecting All The Things You Could Be Doing For Him? I'm Not Referring To Works Which Could Be Regarded As Divine And Miraculous, But Ordinary, Simple Human Things - Things Which Would Be Evidence To God That You Are Totally Surrendered To Him.

Thoughts About Myself Hinder My Usefulness To God.

Are You Willing To Give And Be Poured Out Until You Are Used Up And Exhausted-not Seeking To Be Ministered To, But To Minister?

When A Man Says He Must Develop A Holy Life Alone With God, He Is Of No More Use To His Fellow Men: He Puts Himself On A Pedestal, Away From The Common Run Of Men.........if We Are Abandoned To Jesus, We Have No Ends Of Our Own To Serve.

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

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.

God Does Not Further Our Spiritual Life In Spite Of Our Circumstances, But In And By Our Circumstances.

The Secret Of The Missionary Is...i Am His, And He Is Carrying Out His Work Through Me.

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

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

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.

It Is A Life Of Faith, Not Of Intellect And Reason, But A Life Of Knowing Who Makes Us “go.

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