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The Happiness For Which Our Souls Ache Is One Undisturbed By Success Or Failure, One Which Will Root Deeply Inside Us And Give Inward Relaxation, Peace, And Contentment, No Matter What The Surface Problems May Be. That Kind Of Happiness Stands In Need On No Outward Stimulus.

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The Happiness For Which Our Souls Ache Is One Undisturbed By Success Or Failure, One Which Will Root Deeply Inside Us And Give Inward Relaxation, Peace, And Contentment, No Matter What The Surface Problems May Be. That Kind Of Happiness Stands In Need On No Outward Stimulus.

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The Holy Spirit Illuminates The Minds Of People, Makes Us Yearn For God, And Takes Spiritual Truth And Makes It Understandable To Us.

Avail Yourself Of The Greatest Privilege This Side Of Heaven. Jesus Christ Died To Make This Communion And Communication With The Father Possible.

We Are Not Cistern Made For Hoarding, We Are Channels Made For Sharing.

The Lord Blesses People Who Bless Others, And He Gives Grace To Those Who Focus On The Things That Please Him.

We Can Receive Jesus Christ When We Believe In His Message And Trust In Him Alone To Save Us.

Anxiety Is The Natural Result When Our Hopes Are Centered In Anything Short Of God And His Will.

I Believe The Home And Marriage Is The Foundation Of Our Society And Must Be Protected.

The Older I Get, The More Important The Eternal Becomes To Me Personally.

I Want People To Remember Me That I Was Faithful, Faithful To The Gospel, Faithful To The Call That God Gave Me. And When I Get To Heaven, I'm Going To Ask Him Why He Called Me, Because I Was Much Used To Milking Cows And Working On The Farm Than I Was Preaching.

There Comes A Moment When We All Must Realize That Life Is Short, And In The End The Only Thing That Really Counts Is Not How Others See Us, But How God Sees Us.

God Can Use The Fear That Grips The Hearts Of Men Today To Point Them To Eternal Truths- The Truth Of God's Eternal Judgment, And The Truth Of His Eternal Love.

Every President I Think I've Ever Known, Except Truman, Has Thought They Didn't Quite Get Done What They Wanted Done. And Toward The End Of Their Administrations, They Were Disappointed And Wished They Had Done Some Things Differently.

Truly A Legend In Our Time, John Templeton Understands That The Real Measure Of A Person's Success In Life Is Not Financial Accomplishment But Moral Integrity And Inner Character.

Old Age May Have Its Limitations And Challenges, But In Spite Of Them, Our Latter Years Can Be Some Of The Most Rewarding And Fulfilling Of Our Lives.

The Same Sun That Melts The Butter Hardens The Clay.

For A Married Couple To Expect Perfection For Each Other Is Unrealistic.

We're A Diverse Society, And I Think The Tv Is Doing A Great Job In Showing That We're All Human Beings, That We Can All Get Along, That We Can All Be Together, And I Think That's A Marvelous Thing.

Diverse Society

Only God Who Made Us Can Touch Us And Change Us And Save Us From Ourselves.

Take Your Eyes And Your Ears And Your Hands And Your Feet And Your Thoughts And Your Heart: Give Them Completely To Christ

We Have Found That Marriage Should Be Made Up Of Two Forgivers. We Need To Learn To Say, "i Was Wrong, I'm Sorry." And We Also Need To Say, "that's All Right, I Love You."

If God Eliminated Evil By Programming Us To Perform Only Good Acts, We Would Lose This Distinguishing Mark - The Ability To Make Choices. We Would No Longer Be Free Moral Agents. We Would Be Reduced To The Status Of Robots.

Talk About God Can Become Dreary And Lackluster If God Isn't In You.

You Have To Decide To Servant The Gods Of Materialism All Around Us Or The True And The Living God.

I Realize That My Ministry Would Someday Come To An End. I Am Only One In A Glorious Chain Of Men And Women God Has Raised Up Through The Centuries To Build Christ's Church And Take The Gospel Everywhere.

Because God Is Love, He Could Not Completely Cast Man Aside.

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"i'm In A Win-win Playoff. " Response Of A Christian Dying Of Cancer At Thirty On The Prospect Of Miraculous Healing.

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God Does Not Call Us To Be Successful, But To Be Obedient.

Only Those Who Want Everything Done For Them Are Bored.

What A Moment To Take The Newspaper In One Hand And The Bible In The Other And Watch The Unfolding Of The Great Drama Of The Ages. This Is An Exciting And Thrilling Time To Be Alive. I Would Not Want To Live In Any Other Period.

I've Spent Too Much Time Giving Speeches, Traveling The World.

Hot Heads And Cold Hearts Never Solved Anything.

Only The Lord Jesus Can Redeem The Soul That Is Steeped In Guilt And Shame. This Baggage Weighs Us Down Until We Accept Jesus' Gift-the Gift That Liberates Souls From Sin's Power.

Wherever The Gospel Is Preached, No Matter How Crudely, There Are Bound To Be Results.

I Think That Hell Essentially Is Separation From God Forever. And That Is The Worst Hell That I Can Think Of. But I Think People Have A Hard Time Believing God Is Going To Allow People To Burn In Literal Fire Forever. I Think The Fire That Is Mentioned In The Bible Is A Burning Thirst For God That Can Never Be Quenched.

God Does Not Change - And Neither Does His Love. He Loved You Before You Were Born... He Loves You Now... And He Will Love You Forever.

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