"When you get right with God, you become what is contemptible in the eyes of the world. Put into practice any of the principles of the Sermon on the Mount and you will be treated with amusement at first, then if you persist, the world gets annoyed and detests you." - Oswald Chambers

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"Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong." - Eric Ludy

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"We often pray best when we stammer and stutter, and we pray worst when words come rolling like a torrent, one after another. God is not moved by words; they are but a noise to him. He is only moved by the deep thought and the heaving emotion which dwell in the innermost spirit." - Charles Spurgeon

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“If Satan allows us to work unhindered, it is because our work is of no consequence.” - D.L. Moody

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"Never say that God is just. If He were just you would be in hell. Rely only on His injustice which is mercy, love and forgiveness." - Isaac the Syrian

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The Danger of busyness:

"Through the years, at 4.00 a.m., by appointment with my Lord, I had been fed by the Hand of God. The busyness of preparation ate into my early morning appointment with God. Less and less time was spent in deep communion with God."

“Reading of Hezekiah’s reprieve I was comforted. The tears I wept and wept into my pillos cleansed my attitude toward the young pastor. I mourned like a dove in Lebanon for the resentment I had allowed to make a travesty of my ministry. I grieved for the spiritual capital which had drained away because my first eager communion with God at daybreak had been shortened, if not replaced, by campaign planning. Those recollections broke my heart and I wept into the pillows.” - William Duma

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"The devil has zealously been distracting men of God who have purposed to attend upon the Lord without distraction. He knows his time is short. Be careful what you commit to." - David Valderrama

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"What an interesting thing it is when we have a man leading the congregation in public worship who is experiencing no reality in personal worship. Can we get water out of a dry well? I believe the highest calling of a Christian leader is not his work, not his organizaton, not his people. There are too many empire builders in the Christian world today. I believe the highest calling today is worship." - George Verwer

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“If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry as he did me, to teach you to pray.” - Robert Murray McCheyne

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"Humility and holiness always go together. Whenever hardness and harshness begin to creep into the personal attitude towards one another, we may be certain we are swerving from the light." - Oswald Chambers

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