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Baptism is faith in action.

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How dangerous a master human emotion is!

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The fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control

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We work because we have not seen the work of Christ.

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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.

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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.

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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him. ...

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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

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Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

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The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.

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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.

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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.

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The note of hallelujah must never be in short supply in the spirit of the believer.

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One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

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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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A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and…

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“Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.”

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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and…

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“Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is…

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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.…

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Death of the spirit is the cessation of its communication with God. Death of the body is the cutting off of communication…

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It is not only the proclamation of the whole truth that is needed today; it is the release of the spiritual reality…

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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…

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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper…

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“We can never know either the hatefulness of sin or the treachery of our self-nature until there is that flash of God…

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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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The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the…

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Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the…

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Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling…

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“Why does God not declare himself as the God of Adam? For we know that Abraham sinned even as Adam did. Why…

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“Brothers, if God brings us to the point of seeing that everything in God's work depends upon His blessing, it will bring…

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“The word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul…

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Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the…

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“Other people cherish another thought. They conclude that life is power. To have the Lord as our life means to be given…

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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as…

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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…

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“Do you know, my friends, that the Spirit within you is very God? Oh that our eyes were opened to see the…

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