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(Warren Wiersbe) Victories won by faith bring glory to God because nobody can explain how they happened

( Dr. Bob Cook) If you can explain what's going on in your ministry, then God didn't do it

(Wiersbe)  Fear and faith can't live together for long in the same heart. Either fear will conquer faith and we'll quit or faith will conquer fear and we will triumph

( John Wesley) Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but sin and love nothing but God, and I will shake the gates of hell

( Wiersbe) We never know when God is testing us in some ordinary experience of life

( John Marsden) Make every occasion a great occasion, for you  can never tell when somebody may be taking your measure for a larger place

( Wiersbe)  Since the Scriptures don't tell us, we'd be wise not to read into a text some weighty spiritual lesson that God never put there

(Wiersbe) Some churches today are mesmerized by statistics and think they're strong because they are big and wealthy, but numbers are no guarantee of God's blessing

( Wiersbe) Some people have the idea that confident, courageous faith is a  kind of religious arrogance, but just the opposite is true

( Wiersbe) Before we can be successful warriors, we must first become sincere worshippers

( Wiersbe) The story of Gideon began with a man hiding in a winepress, but it ended with the enemy being slain at the winepress

( Wiersbe) God doesn't need large numbers to accomplish His purposes, nor does He need especially gifted leaders

( Wiersbe) When the church starts to depend on " bigness "--- big buildings, big crowds, big budgets--- then faith becomes misplaced, and God can't give His blessing. When leaders depend on their education, skills, and experience rather than on God, then God abandons them

( Wiersbe) Courage isn't necessarily the absence of fear, it is overcoming of fear by transforming it into power. There is a fear that paralyzes and a fear that energizes

( Andrew Bonar) Let us be as  watchful after the victory  as before the battle

( Our Daily Bread) Bite your tongue before your tongue bites you

( Bill Hybels) One of the msot energizing, encouraging, and awe-inspiring truths about God: His power is limitless and He wants to share  it with you liberally

( Hybels) God never has to ask permission. His unrestrained, indescribable, infinite power and abilities have no parameters

( Charles Swindoll) Providence is God making everyday events work for His uses. God is still sovereign in the twenty-first century. He will accomplish His purposes with or without our cooperation