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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Can Jesus Christ See The Agony Of His Soul In Us? He Can't Unless We Are So Closely Identified With Him That We Have His View Concerning The People For Whom We Pray. May We Learn To Intercede So Wholeheartedly That Jesus Christ Will Be Completely And Overwhelmingly Satisfied With Us As Intercessors.

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

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.

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.

Prayer Is An Effort Of Will.

Human Nature, If Healthy, Demands Excitement; And If It Does Not Obtain Its Thrilling Excitement In The Right Way, It Will Seek It In The Wrong. God Never Makes Bloodless Stoics; He Makes No Passionless Saints.

But God Is The God Of Our Yesterdays, And He Allows The Memory Of Them To Turn The Past Into A Ministry Of Spiritual Growth For Our Future. God Reminds Us Of The Past To Protect Us From A Very Shallow Security In The Present.

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.

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

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.

Now Is The Time For Us To Stop Seeking Our Own Satisfaction And To Pour Out Our Lives Before Him.

Never Look For Justice In This World, Never Cease To Give It.

The Love Of God Is Not Created- It Is His Nature.

Never Allow Anything That Divides Or Destroys The Oneness Of Your Life With Christ To Remain In Your Life Without Facing It.

Jesus Christ Founded His Kingdom On The Weakest Link Of All-a Baby.

In The Spiritual Domain, Criticism Is Love Turned Sour. In A Wholesome Spiritual Life There Is No Room For Criticism. The Critical Faculty Is An Intellectual One, Not A Moral One. If Criticism Becomes A Habit It Will Destroy The Moral Energy Of The Life And Paralyse Spiritual Force. The Only Person Who Can Criticise Human Beings Is The Holy Spirit.

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Some Prayers Are Followed By Silence Because They Are Wrong, Others Because They Are Bigger Than We Can Understand.

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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.

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.

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

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

What Hinders Me From Hearing Is That I Am Taken Up With Other Things. It Is Not That I Will Not Hear God, But I Am Not Devoted In The Right Place. I Am Devoted To Things, To Service, To Convictions, And God May Say What He Likes But I Do Not Hear Him.

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

The Degree Of Panic Activity In My Life Is Equal To The Degree Of My Lack Of Personal Spiritual Experience.

No Man Has Ever Gone Through The Crisis Of Deliberately Making Jesus Lord And Found Him To Be A Failure.

God Can Do Nothing For Me Until I Recognize The Limits Of What Is Humanly Possible, Allowing Him To Do The Impossible.

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

It Is Misleading To Imagine That We Are Developed In Spite Of Our Circumstances, For We Are Developed Because Of Them. It Is Mastery In Circumstances That Is Needed, Not Mastery Over Them.

Our Lord Was 30 Years Preparing For 3 Years Of Service. The Modern Stamp Is To Spend 3 Hours Preparing For 30 Years Of Service.

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

When We No Longer Seek God For His Blessings, We Have Time To Seek Him For Himself.

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.

When We Preach The Love Of God There Is A Danger Of Forgetting That The Bible Reveals Not First The Love Of God But The Intense, Blazing Holiness Of God, With His Love At The Center Of That Holiness.

So Long As There Is A Human Being Who Does Not Know Jesus Christ, I Am His Debtor To Serve Him Until He Does.

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.

The God Who Guides The Stars, Unhasting And Unresting, Will As Assuredly Fulfill What He Has Promised.

Angels Cannot Preach The Gospel, Only Beings Such As Paul And You And I Can Preach The Gospel.

Earnestness Is Not By Any Means Everything; It Is Very Often A Subtle Form Of Pious Pride Because It Is Obsessed With The Method And Not With The Master.

Obey Him With Glad Reckless Joy.

The Strain Of Life Is What Builds Our Strength. If There Is No Strain, There Will Be No Strength.

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

When God Gives Us A Vision, We Must Transact Business With Him At That Point, No Matter What The Cost.

Remember That We Have To Ask Things Of God That Are In Keeping With The God Whom Jesus Christ Revealed.

The Resentment Of Discipline Of Any Kind Will Warp The Whole Life Away From God's Purpose.

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.

Character In A Saint Means The Disposition Of Jesus Christ Persistently Manifested.

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

When I Was Born Again, I Received The Very Life Of The Risen Lord From Jesus Himself.

God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son

We Must Get To The Place Of Real Solitude With Christ. He Is Our Mountain-height And Our Sea-calm.

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

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

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.”

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