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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

Oswald Chambers

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
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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Difficult Eyes God Prayer
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
Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?
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God Learning Listening Yourself
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
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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God Patience Reality Shape Vision Way
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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Faith Leadership Love Oneself
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Complete God Loyalty Yourself
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Break Form Human Life Slave Willing
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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Expectation God Life Manifestation Moral Ourselves
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
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
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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God Goodness Sin Suspicious
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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Growth Measurement Sensitive Sin
Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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Faith Myself Person See Understand Way

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