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There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ

There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

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Christian, Humble, Humility

Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.

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God, Christian, Religious

The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.

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Prayer, Humility, Men

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

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Jesus, Kindness, Men
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.

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Men, Mad, World

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

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Christian, Mean, Men

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

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Merit

Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

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Faith, Death, Christian

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

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Yield, Tears, Treasure

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

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Jesus, Church, Want

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

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Expectations, Found, True Faith

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

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Anticipation, Holy, Meetings

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

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Hurt, Pain, Men
"The Root of the Righteous". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1955.

We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Father, Trying

Jesus came not to condemn, but to reclaim.

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Jesus

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

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Running, Men, Stories

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

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Expectations, Goodness
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.

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Christian, Children, Father

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

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Spiritual, Growth, Complacency

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

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Design, Doe, Purpose

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

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Taken, Average, Church

Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.

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Art, Thinking, Civilization

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

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Men, Evil, Manipulation

Faith in faith is faith astray.

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In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

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Blessing, Trying, Difficulty

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