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IT
TAKES faith to forgive (Luke 17: 2-5) and to be forgiven (Mark 2:5).
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To
know God is to personally know that God loves you and that our lives are
in the center of His will.
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To
have a fulfilling life, fill your life full with that which is good.
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Sometimes
it takes more faith to accept unanswered prayer than it does to have our
prayers answered.
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When
it seems the hardest to pray, that’s when we should pray the hardest.
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Christian
character is more convincing in establishing the credibility of Christianity
than Christian evidences.
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People
who don’t know how to love don’t know how to forgive.
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It
is hard to be bold for righteousness when we have done wrong and are in
the wrong (Proverbs 28:1).
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Be
kind for kindness begets kindness (each kind after its kind).
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If
we can control our minds, we can control our actions; if we can control
our actions, we can get things done.
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Confronting
problems with anger only compounds the problems.
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OBEDIENCE
is faith in action.
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If you search your
soul and search the Scriptures, you will find salvation.
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The best things
in life have nothing to do with things.
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You can give without
loving (1 Cor. 13:3), but you can’t love without giving (1 John 3:17,18;
John 3:16).
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Do the best that
you can and you will always do better.
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Happy is the man who
knows his weakness for in knowing he can be on guard and thereby become
strong.
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Hope that is alive
produces vibrant, purposeful living.
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Being positive in nature,
faith thrives in a positive atmosphere, but sometimes it takes the trials
of a negative atmosphere to perfect it.
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Stubbornness sanctified
by the Holy Spirit becomes steadfastness.
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When God gives a command,
it is understood that anything and everything contrary to its fulfillment
is forbidden (Genesis 3:1-3).
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He who is lowly
does not have to fear the heights of a fall (Proverbs 16:18).
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JESUS
not only is the Son of God, He is God the Son
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It
is hard for the person who has not made peace with himself to be at peace
with others
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We
must recognize defeat before we can find the victory in Christ.
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Christ
loves the world because he loves the individual, and aside from the individual
love would be meaningless.
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Life
is not as threadbare when we are clothed with Christ.
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As
a Christian you are nice to other people not because of who they are, but
because of who you are.
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We
have no interest in that which we have not invested.
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Daniel
chose to spend a night in a lion's den before he would go through the day
without praying.
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Sometimes
you have to go out on a limb to get the best fruit.
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Always
do what is right and you won't have to worry about the consequences of
doing wrong.
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It
is good to think twice before doing anything once.
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FAITH
without love is not from above.
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Trust
and obey and you will be on your way to that Great Eternal Day.
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It
helps to kneel if you would take a stand for that which is right.
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If
you would try-umph you must try and try and try again and again and again.
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Read
the Bible carefully and prayerfully to get the most out of it.
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People
under submission to the Holy Spirit submit themselves one to another (Ephesians
5:18,21).
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Prayer
changes things, first, because it changes us.
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Jesus
lived life in the flesh, not to prove that we could be perfect, but to
become our Savior and so that we could know that he is a sympathetic high
priest who has experienced life as we.
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Prayer
is the key to the morning and a lock to the night for Christians.
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God
wants us to be wholly holy (1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Corinthians 7:1).
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It’s
hard to stumble when you are on your knees.
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If
we don’t appreciate and love the truth, it will not be ours for long.
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MODERN CHRISTIANITY: Every thing nice, and no sacrifice.
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We
can never profit from our mistakes until we recognize them as such.
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If
you are not a humble person, it is hard for others to teach you (for they
are rebuffed by your arrogance), and it is hard for you to learn (for you
think that you know it all).
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We
must first see ourselves for what we are before we can envision ourselves
for what we ought to be.
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It
takes a real man to recognize that he is less than the man that he ought
to be and then do something about it.
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Just
a little bit of religion can be like a vaccine, making a person immune
to the real thing.
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It
takes a little negative preaching to deal with sin and then some positive
preaching to get things turned around.
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Seeking
righteousness aside from the context of grace amounts to nothing more than
self-righteousness.
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If
we are sectarian in our presentation of the truth, our adherents will be
sectarian in their acceptance and stand for it.
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If
your Christianity doesn’t work in the work place, it doesn’t work any place.
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Grace
cushions us as we conscientiously strive to get sin out of our lives, and
it is never a cushion upon which to indifferently recline to continue in
the practice of sin.
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It
is always nice to be nice, and it is never nice to not be nice (even to
people who are not nice).
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Religion
is merely a delusive opiate of the people when it only soothes their consciences
but has not changed their lives.
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If
you throw your life away, you had better watch out where it will land (for
it won’t be in heaven).
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We
must be crucified with Christ, if we would be raised with him; we must
be raised with him, if we would walk in newness of life; we must walk in
newness of life, if we would go to heaven (Romans 6; Colossians 2:12; 3:1-4).
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Better
not make a mountain out of a molehill unless you are good at mountain climbing.
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It
doesn’t make sense to talk about getting back to and restoring the church
of the New Testament then bypass that church, setting up other organizations
to do the work of the church.
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The
mind steeped in Calvinism is a stony ground upon which the seed of the
gospel to fall.
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We
can talk about the "right church" all we like, and even be against denominationalism,
but if we are not right with God, we are not in the "right church" no matter
what we say.
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Some
religious movements move like water going down the drain; slush! And they
are with us no more.
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It
is not the responsibility of the Lord’s church to provide play programs
for you and your children; that is not what the church of the New Testament
is all about; its mission is spiritual (I Peter 2:5).
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Beware!
You may be setting yourself up for the devil when you set yourself in front
of a television set.
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If
your brand of spirituality makes you arrogant, self-righteous and proud,
it would be better called carnality.
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If
we live like animals, we will die like animals (with no hope).
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Some
"churches" represent a system of compromise wherein the truth will not
thrive (nor long survive).
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Selfishness
is the key to unhappiness.
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RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES
not based in fact are delusion.
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He who expects little,
and does nothing, will not be disappointed.
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If we cannot see the
forest for the trees, perhaps we need to step back and get a better view
of things.
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Self-induced emotional
"hype" is not the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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The favorite pastime
of some brethren is fussing and picking one another apart in the name of
religion.
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You cannot leave
God out of your life then expect Him to let you into heaven.
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If it is easy for you
to "fly off the handle," you are not the best tool for the Master’s use
(better get your "handle" fixed).
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Sometimes people
who are real sensitive don’t make much sense.
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If your religious life
revolves around some human personality, and not solely that of Christ,
you may be involved with a cult.
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Elders should exercise
leadership, not lordship, (1 Peter 5:3) over the church.
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It is racism of the
cheapest and rankest sort when played upon by politicians, whether in a
negative way or even a positive way, for selfish political gain.
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If you leave God
out, you "strike out" even before you get up to bat.
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You do not hear complaints
of "cramming it down their throats" from people who are hungering and thirsting
after righteousness.
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When life gets threadbare,
it is easy to become unraveled.
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There is something
wrong with our concept of grace if it does not motivate and move us to
good works (Ephesians 2:8-10; 1 Corinthians 15:10).
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If you must have
the last word, let it be an "amen" at the end of a prayer.
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Better reconsider if
you think that you are "burned out" on religion; there is another place
that has not burned out and where "the fire is not quenched" (Mark 9:43-48).
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Going the course
of least resistance is what makes men and rivers (and churches) crooked.
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Preacher, in preaching
remember that the apostle Paul said, "we preach not ourselves, but Christ
Jesus the Lord" (2 Corinthians 4:5)—GET YOURSELF OUT OF THE PICTURE!
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A person must really
be small of stature if he has to put someone down to make himself seen.
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If you present yourself
as a painted sex object (Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 23:40; Proverbs 6:25),
you may find it hard to let your light shine (Matthew 5:16) through a face
smothered with makeup (1 Tim. 2:9,10).
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Reality is not always
the truth; it is things as they are, but not necessarily how they should
be.
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Although a polluted
substance may be emptied from a container, impure residue remains; likewise,
to think evil thoughts defiles the mind, although the thoughts are no longer
there.
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You are a selfish
person if you are trying to live your life without God.
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The Bible speaks of
walking in the light (1 John 1:7), not just doing nothing, basking in the
light.
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