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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.


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We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.



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The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.



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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.



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What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.



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We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.



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The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.



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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony



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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.





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