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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Oswald Chambers

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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God Proverb Yourself
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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Assurance Endurance Ourselves Perseverance
Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?
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God Learning Listening Yourself
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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Character God Happiness Intimacy Life
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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God Heaven Hell Ignorance Interest Meaning
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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Artifical Battle Lost Won World
The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.
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Character Expression God Goodness Human Religion
The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Growth Way Weakness Yourself
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
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God Himself Holy Intense Love
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Devotion God Person Reason Religion Work
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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Expectation God Life Manifestation Moral Ourselves
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
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Character Evidence God Regard Truth Word
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
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Design Experience God Live Personal Place Understand Yourself
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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Faith Leadership Love Oneself
I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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Choice God Greatness Yourself
Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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God Habit Life Romance Talk

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