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( Sim Kay Tee) Our speech reveals what we really are

(The Daily Bread) Gossip ends at a wise man's ears

(Ray Stedman) Sexual promiscuity destroys families, wounds the emotions and the psyches of men, women, and adolescents, and tears the fabric of a society

(Ray Stedman) There is a saying, " When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds. Not I. He.

(A. Rogers) If you are looking for an easy way to serve the Lord, you can forget it

(Wiersbe) " Apt to teach" implies apt to learn

(Wiersbe) We do not put faith in our faith or in our feelings because they will change and fail. We put our faith in Christ

( J. Hudson Taylor) It is not by trying to be faithful, but in looking to the Faithful One, that we win the victory

(Wiersbe) You are not running the race to please people or to get fame. You are running to please Jesus Christ

(Wiersbe) A pastor friend of mine often reminds me," The harvest is not at the end of the meeting- it is at the end of the age "

(Wiersbe) "Rightly divide" means " cutting  straight"

(Wiersbe) Much as gangrene spreads, infects, and kills other tissue, so false doctrine spreads and infects the body of believers, the church. This infection must be exposed and removed

(Wiersbe) Martin Luther once said that  prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor, and this is true. We cannot be approved unless we are tested

(Wiersbe) For God to be able to use us as a vessel, we must be empty, clean, and available

(Wiersbe) Satan makes people drunk with his lies; the servant's task is to sober them up and rescue them

(Sim Kay Tee)  The objective is not to win the argument or to demolish the opponents; but to lead them into truth and repentance

(Dennis Fisher) The next time you see the works or hear the words of a hater of God, do an attitude check. Then ask God for a spirit of humnility and pray tha the offender might come to the knowledge of the truth. Defend the truth with love

(Mart De Haan) When God doesn't seem to be " talking", it's what He has already said that He wants us to hear

(Mart De Haan) Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge to reach a desired goal

(Joe Stowell) We are often deceived onto thinking that what we have grown accustomed to is the best

( Joe Stowell) The underlying tenet of the Sermon on the Mount is that all of life must be viewed beyond the boundaries of the present world. Eternity is the benchmark by which every earthly issue is measured. Christ was aware that eternity is the real forever world, that the flat , temporary world is distorted and a deluded one. We need to learn how to live successfully by projecting the real world according to Christ into the fallen world round us. Everything Christ did and thought had eternity in view

(Joe Stowell) Deep within all of us  the desire to follow resonates. We really do want life the way it was meant to be, not the way we have made it

( Joe Stowell) Humility is the driving desire to give God the glory in all things and to obey Him regardless

(Joe Stowell) Compassion listens, contemplates life from another's point of view, knows no barriers of color or culture, and clearly seeks to bless rather than to be blessed

(Stowell) Character leaves a legacy. It is transferrable to succeeding generations

( Job 38:3/The Message) I have some questions for you and I want some staight answers

(Job 38:15/ The Message) Speak up if you have even the beginning of an answer

(Job 38:36/The Living Bible) Who gives intuition and instinct?