“You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that “you deceive yourselves”
– Charles Finney
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves”
– James 1:22
“A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless and insincere”
Derek Prince
“But wilt thou know, O vain man,
that faith without works is dead?”
– James 2:20
“But none of these things move me”
Acts 20:24
The immovable walk of God’s own is a confidence born of true humility, for they who have ceased to rely upon themselves have found the everlasting arms of God Himself to be their hope, their strength and their very life…
“When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry…”
Colossians 3:4-5
It is in our undoing that we are made –
“for when I am weak, then am I strong”
2 Corinthians 12:10
“Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.”
– Thomas De Witt Talmage
“And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness”
– Genesis 9:23
“The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself”
– Vance Havner
“If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work”
– 2 Timothy 2:21
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