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No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.

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Alan Redpath
Age: 81 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 1
Died: 1989
Died: January 1
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When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.
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The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.
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What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.
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No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.
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There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.
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God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.
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THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?
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Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.
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It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
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The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.
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Before we can pray, Lord, Thy Kingdom come, we must be willing to pray, My Kingdom go.
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When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.
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Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.
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We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.
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Let's keep our chins up and our knees down - we're on the victory side.
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The essence of sin is arrogance the essence of salvation is submission.
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