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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

Oswald Chambers

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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Destroy Division Face Life Yourself
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
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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Devil God Myself Purpose World
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Forever Gift God Life Worth
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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Blessing God Himself Seek Time
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Gold Intellectual Obedience Rule Spiritual Understand
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 strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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Build Life Ourselves Strength
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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Disturb Faith God Greatness Man
Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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End God Ourselves Religious
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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End Happiness Holy Man
If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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Flow God Obedience Ourselves Reality
The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Judgement Ourselves People
Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
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Difficult Flow Focus Obstacle Remember Yourself
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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Change Person Prayer Sight Truth Yourself
When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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Man Oneself Soul Woman

We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

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