Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
WATCHMAN NEEGod has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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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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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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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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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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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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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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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 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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