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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

Oswald Chambers

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Best Measurement Obedience Spiritual
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.
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Appointment Circumstance Creation Divine God Important Leadership Ourselves
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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Glory God Himself Judgement Place
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
Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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Father Himself Man Obedience Willing
It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Himself Intimacy Person Relationship Time Visible Walk
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
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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Activity Atmosphere Himself Important Influence Man
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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Faint Faith Life Walk Wings
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
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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Character God Happiness Intimacy Life
Don’t read to remember; read to realize.
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Reading Realization Remember
Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
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God Happiness Himself Planning
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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Bright Glow Greatness Growth Shine
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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Growth Measurement Sensitive Sin

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