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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
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The detour is always rougher than the main road
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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
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We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
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Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
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I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
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Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.
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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
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We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs ... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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If we don't come apart; we will come apart.
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Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
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Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
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The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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God's Word is its own best argument.
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