If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
WATCHMAN NEEWe think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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