F. B. Meyer Quotes
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The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.
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What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.
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As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
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I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones.
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The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
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Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
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The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.
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The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.
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The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.
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Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.
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There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
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Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.
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Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.
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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
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When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.
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How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!
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We must be still before God.
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If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.
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Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.
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If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.
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The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.
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God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.
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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.
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The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.