The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
WATCHMAN NEEThe Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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