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- We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
- Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every…
- When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in…
- God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition…
- We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail…
- Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself,…
- We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right…
- If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of…
- If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when…
- A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
- When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer…
- For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a…
- The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
- The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
- The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man…
- There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain…
- There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right…
- Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work.…
- Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us…
- The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus…
- It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the…
- If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but…
- There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get…
- You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your…
- As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ;…
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