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What is Faith? Close your eyes to everything visible, and open your ear to God. That is faith.
Bad doctrine leads to bad behaviour.You can learn of a person by reading of that person in a book, but to learn from that person you must be in his company.
Humility is the secret of fellowship, and pride is the secret of division.
If we do not put into practice what we say we have believed, then we have not really believed it.
I think that when near the Lord you look at your mercies, when away from Him at your troubles.
The best way to correct a failing in your brother is to be in yourself the living expression of the virtue he lacks
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The Bible is always a new book to those well–acquainted with it.
Spiritual work can only be done by spiritual strength.
Every step in faith’s pathway will be contested by the Devil.
It is a poor gain to acquire considerable knowledge of God without its having at the same time a deep moral effect on the soul.
Lot walked “by sight”—he lifted up his own eyes (Gen. 13: 10). Abram walked “by faith” and lifted up his eyes only at the command of Jehovah (Gen. 13: 14).
The great conductor, Reichel, was taking his choir and orchestra through their final rehearsal of Handel’s Messiah. In flawless fashion, the soprano soloist sang her part and all expected the conductor to congratulate her. Instead, he responded, “You don’t know your Redeemer lives, do you?” Embarrassed, she stammered, “I think I do”. “Then sing it so I know you have experienced the joy and power of it”.
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All the revivals in Christianity have usually been accompanied, if not caused, by a considerable amount of open–air preaching.
The way to be very great is to be very little.
It is only by faith we see our home above that we are proper pilgrims here.
I am a pilgrim here because I am going home; I am a stranger here because I am not at home.
I am often troubled that many seek to know how to know God’s will without really having the heart to do it.
The Lord’s coming was constantly before the mind of the apostles and the early believers, and entered into and coloured all their thoughts, words and actions.
“Occupation with” leads to “likeness to”.
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Humility is not demeaning ourselves and thinking poorly of ourselves. It is simply not thinking of ourselves at all.
The servant said in his heart— he did not preach it— “my Lord delayeth His coming”
The Christian is not ruined by living in the world, but by the world living in him.
“Search the Scriptures” said the Lord, using the Greek word which implies a strict, diligent, curious search such as men make when seeking gold.
If you do not pray for those whom you do know, you can hardly pray for those whom you do not know.
Reasoning about Christ without affection for Christ, is the road to error.
God loves every one of us as if there were but one of us.
The sealing of the Spirit is I know that I am God's property. The earnest of the Spirit is that I have got property.
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Not only must something be done to evangelise the millions, but everything must be done “if by any means I may save some” is to be our motto.
May we live more as those who will meet one another in glory!
Life and harmony in the Church depend on subjection to the Head, and on mutual subjection to one another.
If we would lead into God’s truth, we must put our neck into Christ’s yoke.
When teaching ceases to be definite it ceases to be powerful.
A man’s serviceability does not consist of what he knows, but of what he is—he is not effective beyond that.
The believer is a vessel for the display of Christ in this world.
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Liberality is measured by God in relation to what remains, and not in relation to what is given.
Spirituality and popularity are not compatible.
The communion of the soul is affected by the view we take of the Son of God.
It is not how much we know about the Lord that is important, but how much we know Him.
(2 Tim.1:12)No service for God is insignificant to God.
If we substitute formality for reality we may hoodwink others but not God.
The darkest cloud brings the heaviest showers of blessings.
God is not looking merely for persons who hold the truth but exponents of it too.
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God has put us in Christ, but we do not always put ourselves where God has placed us.
If we would prevail with men in public, we must prevail with God in private.
Sport for the sportsman, politics for the politician, money for the miser, Christ for the Christian.
Christ in the head is of no value without Christ in the heart.
The Pope’s calendar only makes saints of the dead, but Scripture requires sanctity in the living.
Faith is taking God at his word.
Love for Jesus sets one to work. I know no other way.
The time will soon come when we shall say of all that has not been Christ in our lives and ways, “that was all lost”.
Christians should be different, not odd. Oddness repels people, difference attracts.
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God is most patient towards mere want of light; but He is intolerant of His saints trifling with the light He has given them
Application of Scripture must be consistent with its explanation.
We accept that the eye cannot do without the hand, (1 Cor. 12: 21), but neither can the eye do the work of the hand.
When the Spirit comes into the believer, He makes Christ dearer, Heaven nearer, and the Word of God clearer.
If Christ is worth having, He is worth sharing.
What is of faith cannot fail.
It is a poor thing to claim to have the Spirit, and be content to serve and live without the power.
One may be busy in works even where the power which once prompted them has largely declined.
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Apply yourself wholly to the Scriptures, and apply the Scriptures wholly to yourself.
Now is the time to make an investment in eternity.
There is always a correspondence between the character and condition of the teachers and the taught.
Prayer must not be transformed into an oblique sermon. It is little short of blasphemy to make devotion an occasion for display.
We want not simply to know the truth, we want to be ardent about it, so that we make it evident that we really have it.
Christ died rather than allow sin to subsist before God.
The infirmities of our brethren are fair occasions for our patience and long–suffering: let us have grace for each opportunity.
All the trials and all the sufferings of all creatures—were they heaped together—must not be compared with Christ’s sufferings on the cross.
Christ never did anything for Himself.
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The Holy Spirit enables us to fulfil earthly duties in a heavenly manner.
There is a difference between Christ’s sealing and ours. He was sealed because of what He was in Himself, we are sealed because of what we are in Him.
There is a great difference between being occupied with what you are saved from, and what you are saved to.
A careless reader of the Scriptures never made a close walker with God.
Many believers, though they live in NT times, walk in the OT spirit.
Being a model citizen did not give Lot’s testimony any power—it was as if he jested. Abraham was separate and had all the power of God at his disposal.
I believe the converting of a soul is something greater than the making of a world.
We either leave our mark on the world or the world leaves its mark on us.
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