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The Impotent Man
Here is the great mistake made by many Christian people: they think that when there is a renewed will, it is enough; but that is not the case. This regenerate man tells us: "I will to do what is good, but the power to perform I find not." How often people tell us that if you set yourself determinedly, you can perform what you will! But this man was as determined as any man can be, and yet he made the confession: "To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not."
But, you ask: "How is it God makes a regenerate man utter such a confession, with a right will, with a heart that longs to do good, and longs to do its very utmost to love God?"
Let us look at this question. What has God given us our will for? Had the angels who fell, in their own will, the strength to stand? Verily, no. The will of the creature is nothing but an empty vessel in which the power of God is to be made manifest.
Andrew Murray

Dusty

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Who longs to have the power and the liberty of the Holy Spirit? Oh, brother, bow before God in one final cry of despair:
"O God, must I go on sinning this way forever? Who shall deliver me, O wretched man that I am! from the body of this death?"
Are you ready to sink before God in that cry and seek the power of Jesus to dwell and work in you? Are you ready to say: "I thank God through Jesus Christ"?
Andrew Murray

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Poor Men's Wives
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“Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used,
a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or
only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives,
if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones,
without self-respect and peace.”

~from the book, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott~

Dusty

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Mark_18

I thought of one while reading these quotes.

-"Every word in every language is a generalization."

-Me

seekinghokmah

hmmm, could u be more specific? LOL
Nice quote.

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Good questions, when answered, innevitably lead to better ones. The light is in the search, and the search itself is the destination.

Boanerges

Only in a general kind of way.

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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

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