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- The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy.…
- I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.
- We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to…
- Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.
- Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is…
- The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense…
- If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The…
- Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing…
- I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me.…
- We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give…
- But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love…
- If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we…
- The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set…
- We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given…
- I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that…
- George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North…
- Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
- It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my…
- If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is…
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