I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
DWIGHT L. MOODYIt is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.
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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
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Excuses are the cradle that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.
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You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.
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A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.
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The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
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If I walk with the world, I can’t walk with God.
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Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
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Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
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A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.
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I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ’s funeral sermons, but I couldn’t find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn’t exist where He was.
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I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.
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I’d rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.
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When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.
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The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
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God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.
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Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.
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There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.
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Be humble, or you’ll stumble.
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Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.
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No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.
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Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
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Whatever you love more than God is your idol.
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The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.
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The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
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Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
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Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favor.
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