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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

Oswald Chambers

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Criticism God Ourselves
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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Devil God Myself Purpose World
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
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Alone Beginning Friendship God Ourselves Question Suffering Teaching
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
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Call Love Obedience Oneself
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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Activity Atmosphere Himself Important Influence Man
The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.
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Character Expression God Goodness Human Religion
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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Damage God Noise Solitude World
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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Cost Discipline Follow Insult Talk Yourself
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Determination Ourselves Spring Way
Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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Beautiful Belief Beware Sound Yourself
Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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Father Himself Man Obedience Willing
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
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Condition God Learning Life Place Yourself
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Architecture Circumstance God Peace Side
Trust God, and do the next thing.
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God One Liner Trust
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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Circumstance Complaint Ourselves Realization Surrender
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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God Ourselves Prayer Purpose

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