Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
WATCHMAN NEEThe life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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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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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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