Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
OSWALD CHAMBERSGet into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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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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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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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
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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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Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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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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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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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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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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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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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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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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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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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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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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