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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.
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The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
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The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.
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It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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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.
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Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty.
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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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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.
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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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.
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We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
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Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
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We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
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Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
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Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.
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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.
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God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.
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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.
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The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
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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.
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Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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