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The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.
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God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.
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The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.
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You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.
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True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.
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The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.
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The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.
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Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.
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Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.
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Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
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Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.
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Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.
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