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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

Oswald Chambers

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
Perseverance 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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Assurance Endurance Ourselves Perseverance
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
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Character Evidence God Regard Truth Word
Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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God Proverb Yourself
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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Answer Prayer Way Yourself
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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God Heaven Hell Ignorance Interest Meaning
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Break Form Human Life Slave Willing
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
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
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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Faint Faith Life Walk Wings
The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
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Conqueror Fear Himself Truth
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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God Goodness Sin Suspicious
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
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God Himself Holy Intense Love
When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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Man Oneself Soul Woman
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Best Measurement Obedience Spiritual
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
Don’t read to remember; read to realize.
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Reading Realization Remember
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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God Obedience Pass Reach Spiritual Time
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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Broken Heart Purpose World Yourself
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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God Himself Neglect Time Work
We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
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Circumstance God Ourselves Responsible Transformation
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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End Happiness Holy Man
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
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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Choice God Himself Suffering Willing
No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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Earth God Hell Ourselves Power Religious Spirit
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Forever Gift God Life Worth
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Determination Ourselves Spring Way

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