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“Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.”
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“A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.”
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“The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.”
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“The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being”
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“Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.”
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“Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.”
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“Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.”
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“When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ”
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“The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it”
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“Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.”
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“Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.”
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“The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.”
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“The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!””
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“Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?”
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“The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.”
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“Abundant living means abundant giving.”
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“Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'”
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“Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.”
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“Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.”
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“Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.”
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“At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.”
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“Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.”
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“When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.”
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“Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.”
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“Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.”
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“If we know how to pray, we know how to live.”
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“Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.”
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“Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.”
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“The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.”
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