F.B. Meyer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.”
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“If you're not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?”
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“Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.”
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“Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.”
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“Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.”
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“Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.”
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“As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.”
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“Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.”
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“Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him- His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.”
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“Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.”
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“God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.”
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“I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones.”
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“How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!”
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“The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.”
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“Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.”
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“If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.”
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“The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.”
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“I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.”
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“There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.”
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“Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.”
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“Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.”
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“God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.”
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“This is the blessed life-not anxious to see far in front, nor eager to choose the path, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time. The Shepherd was always out in front of the sheep. He was down in front. Any attack upon them had to take him into account. Now God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.”
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“The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.”
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“God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.”
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“The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.”
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“Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.”
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“When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.”
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“The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.”
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