A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.
DWIGHT L. MOODYI believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
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Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
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Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
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The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
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Spread out your petition before God, and then say, “Thy will, not mine, be done.” The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.
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The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.
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I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided.
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Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.
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If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.
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I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.
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Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
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The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church…is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
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The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord’s work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.
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I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.
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Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don’t want to be heavenly-minded while they live.
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Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
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