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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.

Oswald Chambers

We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
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 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
The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Judgement Ourselves People
We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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Inspirational Ourselves Prayer
There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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Need Place Prayer Yourself
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Architecture Circumstance God Peace Side
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
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
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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Difficult Eyes God Prayer
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Calculation God Ourselves Worry
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
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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Artifical Battle Lost Won World
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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Character God Hard Time Journey Ourselves
God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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Business God Man Realization Woman 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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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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