Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
OSWALD CHAMBERSPerseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
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