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Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Martin Luther

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
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Change Evidence Experience God Grace Greatness Hide Lying Men Soul Strong
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
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Greatness Myself Power Religious Simplicity
The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc; but how few acknowledge these as God’s special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.
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Body Gift God Gratitude Health Reaction Thankful
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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Deep Responsibility Silence Word Yourself
The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
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Belief Hard Myself Prayer Result
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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God Heart Prayer
Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
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Avoid Hairs Need Ourselves Temptation
Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
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Deep Hell Soul World
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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Faith Future Hope Inspirational Myself Pieces Plant Tree
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
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Book God Religious
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love receiving from above faith and giving out below love.
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Difference Faith Love Religious
Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.
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Beautiful Eyes God Himself Love Soul Word
God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
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Appearance Attractive Difference God Himself Love Sin
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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Alive Breathe Impossible Inspirational Prayer
Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
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God Hide Religious Suffering
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.
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Believe Company Live People Teaching

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