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I used to think that God’s gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them.

F.B. Meyer

The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God’s providence.
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Character Mean Order
Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money’s worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings.
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Blood Earning Jesus Past
God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.
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Dread Men Tomorrow
The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
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Flesh Galatians Lust
God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.
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Blessed Purpose Soul
Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.
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Consecration Feelings Will
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
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Misery Profound Sin
By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him- His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.
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Act Consecration Himself Master
Christ’s work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.
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Finals Needs Perfect
Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.
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Believe Clouds People Reinforcement
I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master’s heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world’s iniquity, but the Church’s indifferences.
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Believe Grief Inspiration
Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.
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Blood Pride Sacrifice
If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.
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Christian Used Willing
He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.
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Heaven Men World
The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
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Iron Men Prayer
Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.
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Heart Men Morning

I used to think that God’s gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them.

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