F. B. Meyer Quotes
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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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God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.
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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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Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.
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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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Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!
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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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If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.
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The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.
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Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.
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Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.
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How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.
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There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it.
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There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.
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When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.
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We never get so near God as when we plead for others.
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The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
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Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.
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Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.
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I can't say I'm willing, Lord, but I'm willing to be made willing.
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Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.
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To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope -- here is fortitude indeed.
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He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.
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Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.