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#1. Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

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#2. Character is what you are in the dark.

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#3. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.

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#4. To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, is simply to take Him at His word.

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#5. Looking at the wound will never save any one. What you must do is to look at the Remedy - look away to Him who hath power to save you from your sin.

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#6. It is not our work to make men believe: that is the work of the Holy Spirit.

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#7. Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.

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#8. If our spiritually dead ones are to be raised, we must first get power with God. The reason we so often fail in moving our fellowmen is that we try to win them without first getting power with God. Jesus was in communion with His Father, and so He could be assured that His prayers were heard. We

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#9. If God did not wish us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

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#10. I think that is the reason we are not more blessed in our ministry; we are carrying around empty buckets, and the people see that we have not anything in them, and they don't come forward.

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#11. Prayer for the work will soon arouse your own sympathy and effort.

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#12. The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

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#13. Now turn to Matthew, tenth chapter, thirty-second verse: "Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven." There's the "I will" of confession.

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#14. Let every professed Christian ask, Where am I in the sight of God? Is my heart loyal to the King of heaven?

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#15. The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

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#16. A great many men are kept out of the kingdom of God because they are looking for somebody else's experience - the experience their grandmother had, their aunt, or some one in the family.

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#17. I believe that many a time trouble and sorrow are permitted to come to us that we may see the face of God, and be shut up to trust in Him alone.

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#18. We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

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#19. Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

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#20. Earth's nobility are soon forgotten. John Bunyan, the Bedford tinker, has outlived the whole crowd of those who were the nobility in his day. They lived for self, and their memory is blotted out. He lived for God and for souls, and his name is as fragrant as ever it was.

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#21. I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.

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#22. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.

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#23. There's not a denomination in the world that didn't spring from a revival.

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#24. I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

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#25. Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

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#26. A man acquainted with God has more power than any earthly potentate. Gold can't do everything.

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#27. He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.

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#28. Depend upon it, my friends, if you get tired of the Word of God, and it becomes wearisome to you, you are out of communion with Him.

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#29. Then we must remember that we are to let our light shine. It does not say, "Make your light shine." You do not have to make light to shine; all you have to do is to let it shine.

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#30. I believe the world has yet to see what God will do with the man who is perfectly surrendered.

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#31. If your minister comes to you frankly, tells you of your sin, and warns you faithfully, thank God for him. He is your best friend; he is a heaven-sent man. But if a minister speaks smooth, oily words to

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#32. He who kneels the most, stands the best.

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#33. I thank God there is a height in that Book [Bible] I do not know anything about, a depth I have never been able to fathom, and it makes the Book all the more fascinating.

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#34. So, many of us have discovered something of the love of God; but there are heights, depths and lengths of it we do not know. That Love is a great ocean; and we require to plunge into it before we really know anything of it.

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#35. If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.

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#36. I have made this discovery: that it takes more love and self-sacrifice for the father to give up the son than it does for the son to

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#37. It is a good thing to lose confidence in ourselves so as to gain confidence in God.

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#38. It is a comforting thing to know that the Lord will not begin the good work without also finishing it.

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#39. Read the Bible, my friends, as if you were seeking for something of value. It is a good deal better to take a single chapter, and spend a month on it, than to read the Bible at random for a month.

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#40. A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility. You soon detect mock humility.

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#41. The next I will is the "I will" of service. There are a good many Christians who have been quickened and aroused to say, "I want to do some service for Christ." Well, Christ says, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.

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#42. Now, some men tell us they don't have time to pray, but I tell you if any man has God's work lying deep in his heart he will have time to pray.

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#43. No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

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#44. God makes a promise; Faith believes it; Hope anticipates it; and Patience quietly awaits it.

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#45. It is said that in the Grecian sports they had one game where the men ran with lights. They lit a torch at the altar, and ran a certain distance; sometimes they were on horseback. If a man came in with his light still burning, he received a prize; if his light had gone out, he lost the prize.

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#46. Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.

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#47. Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.

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#48. If the Christians of this country would only rise up, we could evangelize America in twelve months.

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#49. It may not be an easy thing to live in sweet fellowship with all those with whom we come in contact; but that is what the grace of God is given to us for.

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#50. If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

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#51. The best law for Bible study is the law of perseverance.

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#52. Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarell among themselves.

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#53. If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown about by every wind of doctrine.

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#54. But in the kingdom of God the very least and the very weakest may shine if they will. Not only can one obtain the prize, but all may have it if they will.

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#55. So all through the Scriptures you will find that when believing prayer went up to God, the answer came down.

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#56. There are a great many people now that are willing to observe what they like about Christ, but the things that they don't like they just dismiss and turn away from.

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#57. The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him

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#58. To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

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#59. I fought against it for months; but the best thing I ever did was when I surrendered my will, and let the will of God be done in me.

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#60. But when they have told how they have been converted, the next thing is to feed on the Word. We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.

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#61. A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is enter into it.

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#62. The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.

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#63. Human eloquence or persuasiveness of speech are the mere trappings of the dead, if the living Spirit be absent; the prophet may preach to the bones in the valley, but it must be the breath from Heaven which will cause the slain to live.

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#64. People can get along without your theories and opinions, "Thus saith the Lord" - that is what we want.

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#65. Wherever the Gospel is proclaimed, there should be an expectation of immediate results, and if this were the case the Church of Christ would be in a constant state of grace.

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#66. God in heaven will hear your prayers, and will answer them. He has never failed, if a man has been honest in his petitions and honest in his confessions. Let your faith beget patience. God is never in a hurry, said St. Augustine, because He has all eternity to work.

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#67. May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!

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#68. Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.

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#69. A worldly Christian is just like a wrecked vessel at sea.

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#70. Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. When man has no strength, if he leans on God he becomes powerful. The trouble is that we have too much strength and confidence in ourselves.

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#71. There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

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#72. The opportunity for sowing will not last forever; it is slipping through our fingers moment by moment; and the future can only reveal the harvest of the seed sown now.

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#73. It is the work of the Spirit to impress the heart and seal the preached word. His office is to take of the things of Christ and reveal them unto us.

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#74. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.

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#75. The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

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#76. I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the Spirit in 1856

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#77. Someone has pointed out that "I" is the centre of S-I-N. It is the medium through which Satan acts. And so the worst enemy you have to overcome, after all, is yourself. When

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#78. Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

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#79. There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love.

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#80. I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.

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#81. Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word of consolation in Scripture.

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#82. The next "I will" is in John, fourteenth chapter, verse eighteen: "I will not leave you comfortless." To me it is a sweet thought that Christ has not left us alone in this dark wilderness here below. Although

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#83. God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

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#84. Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.

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#85. Character is what a man is in the dark

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#86. If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

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#87. If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

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#88. The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - Romans 6:23.

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#89. Every man ought to take down some of the preacher's words and ideas, and go into some lane or by-way, and preach them again to others. We ought to have four ears - two for ourselves and two for other people.

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#90. We can not work for God without love. It is the only tree that can produce fruit on this sin-cursed earth, that is acceptable to God. If I have no love for God nor for my fellow man, then I can not work acceptably. I

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#91. A man ought to live so that everybody will know he is a Christian.

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#92. The Bible is a guidebook in the journey of life, and the only one that points the way to Heaven.

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#93. We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a goof deal will be accomplished for God.

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#94. The more you love the Scriptures, the firmer will be your faith. There is little backsliding when people love the Scriptures.

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#95. I would not give much for a man's Christianity if he is saved himself and is not willing to try and save others. It seems to me the basest ingratitude if we do not reach out the hand to others who are down in the same pit from which we were delivered. Who

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#96. So few grow, because so few study.

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#97. The next "I will" is found in Luke, fifth chapter. We read of a leper who came to Christ, and said: "Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean." The Lord touched him, saying, "I will: be thou clean"; and immediately the leprosy left him.

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#98. A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.

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#99. How many opportunities occur daily wherein every Christian might be "instant in season and out of season" in pleading for Jesus!

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#100. I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

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