Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
OSWALD CHAMBERSSpend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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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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Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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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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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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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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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Don’t read to remember; read to realize.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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Trust God, and do the next thing.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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