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If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
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A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.
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Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders...
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Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
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An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
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This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.
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Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
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Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor faith.
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Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.
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For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
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Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature... We do not need to beg Him to bless us, He simply cannot help it. Therefore God is enough! God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!
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The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.
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For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions, that, if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we shall be very apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.
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When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.
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If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
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Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!
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Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.
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In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trials come. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms.
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God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.
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Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
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If our hearts are full of our own wretched I ams we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying I Am.
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Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.
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Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.