The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
WATCHMAN NEEThe right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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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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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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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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The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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