The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
F.B. MEYERHe 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.
More F.B. Meyer Quotes
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The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
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If you’re not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?
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If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.
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The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
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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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There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price.
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There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it.
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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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To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope — here is fortitude indeed.
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The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.
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Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.
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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.
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The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.
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Iff you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape.
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There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.
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