Earnestness is not by any means everything it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.Oswald Chambers
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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