Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
WATCHMAN NEEHow easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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