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( Bill Hybels)  I suspect the God I know is the God you're looking for. He's not the God of your nightmares. He's not the God of a screaming. overzealous evangelist. He's not the God who eagerly wants for failure so He can carry out His sentence of wrath with unbounded glee. On the contrary, He is a God who wants to be in a intimate relationship with you. He's the God who has orchestrated every event of your life to give you the best chance to get to know Him, so that you can experience the full measure of His love

( Phil 4:2/ Phillips translation) Learn to see things from other people's perspective

( Wiersbe) There can no joy in the life of a Christian who puts himself above others

( Andrew Murray) Humility is that grace which, when you know you have it, you have lost it

( Wiersbe) There is a difference between unity and uniformity. True spiritual unity comes  from within; it is a matter of the heart. Uniformity is the result of pressure from without

( Wiersbe)  Lucifer said " I will " but Jesus said " Thy will "

( Wiersbe) Others is the key word in the vocabulary of the Christian who experiences the submissive mind

( Wiersbe)  Christ  Incarnation: What grace. From heaven to earth, from glory to shame, from master to servant, from life to death

Christ's Incarnation was almost like  glorification in reverse

( J H Jowett ) Ministry that cost nothing accomplishes nothing

( Warren Wiersbe) The test of the submissive mind is not just how much we are willing to take in terms of suffering, but how much we are willing to give in terms of sacrifice

( Wiersbe )  When love is the motive, sacrifice is never measured or mentioned

( Wiersbe) Is it costing you anything to be a Christian?

( Wiersbe) To bow before Him now means salvation; to bow before Him at the Judgment means condemnation

( Mark Twain)  Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example

( Warren Wiersbe) The Chrtistian life is not a series of ups and downs. It is rather a process of " ins and outs ". God works in and we work out

( Wiersbe) We are not supposed to be " cheap imitations " of " great Christians"
We are to follow only what we see of Christ in their lives

( Wiersbe) Our God is a God of infinite variety. All of us must be like Christ, but we must be ourselves