Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
WATCHMAN NEEFormerly 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 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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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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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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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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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