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- 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…
- Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
- We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the…
- God wants to use us as He used His own Son
- A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere,…
- Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
- The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us.…
- 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.
- Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having…
- It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and…
- Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.
- 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…
- If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We…
- When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts…
- The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will…
- The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell…
- When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the…
- We are here for God's designs, not for our own
- The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a…
- It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
- Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but…
- Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty…
- Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.
- If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells…
- Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
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