A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
WATCHMAN NEENot by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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