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So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.


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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.



Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.



The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.



God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.



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God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.



Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.



Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.



Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.



Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.



Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.

Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.





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