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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

Oswald Chambers

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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Change Person Prayer Sight Truth Yourself
The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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Fulfill God Seek Yourself
Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
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God Happiness Himself Planning
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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Future Hands Himself Leaving Past
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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Build Life Ourselves Strength
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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End God Ourselves Religious
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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Compare Friendship God Shadow Yourself
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
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
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Criticism God Ourselves
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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Evidence Inspirational Ourselves Relationship Right
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Architecture Circumstance God Peace Side
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
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
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Calculation God Ourselves Worry

We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

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