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

Oswald Chambers

I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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Choice God Greatness Yourself
The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.
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Character Greatness Himself Man Test
God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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God Obedience Reveal Truth Yourself
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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Compare Friendship God Shadow Yourself
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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Cost Discipline Follow Insult Talk Yourself
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
The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Judgement Ourselves People
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
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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Disturb Faith God Greatness Man
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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Circumstance Complaint Ourselves Realization Surrender
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
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Break Form Human Life Slave Willing
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
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
Trust God, and do the next thing.
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God One Liner Trust
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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God Obedience Reason Right Yourself
Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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God Habit Life Romance Talk
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
The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Growth Way Weakness Yourself
God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.
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Appointment Circumstance Creation Divine God Important Leadership Ourselves
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
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Complete God Loyalty Yourself
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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Devotion God Person Reason Religion Work
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
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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Destroy Division Face Life Yourself
God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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Best Circumstance God Talk Yourself
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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God Greatness Himself Person Rare

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

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