Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

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The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

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Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

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Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

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I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

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The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.

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Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.

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Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

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If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

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There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

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