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( Wiersbe) The word " know" is  used 141 times and the word " love" is used 56 times in the book of John

( Wiersbe) The Holy Spirit does not work instead of us or inspite of us, but in us and through us. To be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Word. The Spirit of Truth uses the Word of truth  to guide us into the will and work of God

( Wiersbe)  The way we treat the Holy Spirit is the way we treat the Lord Jesus Christ. The way we treat the Bible is the way we treat the Spirit of God and the Son of God

( Wiersbe) Salvation means we are going to heaven, but submission means that heaven comes to us

( Spurgeon)  Little faith will take your soul to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your soul

( Wiersbe) The world bases its peace on its resources, while God's peace depends on relationships. The world depends on personal ability, but the Christian depends on spiritual adequacy with Christ

( Wiersbe) Unsaved people enjoy peace when there is absence of trouble; Christians enjoy peace inspite of trials because of the presence of the power of the Holy Spirit

( Wiersbe) People in the world walk by sight and depend on the externals, but Christians walk by faith and depend on the eternals

( Wiersbe)  We have  the Spirit within us, the Savior above us, and the Word before us! What tremendous resources for peace!

( Hybels) Nobody before or since has faced  the responsibilites, duties, and pressures that Jesus bore

(Hybels) God grieves when we lie to ourselves in a vain attempt to explain away our unrighteousness by using projection, rationalization, comparisons, suppression, distraction, and escapism. None of these work and all of them will eventually break down and leave us exhausted, defeated, and feeling miserable

( Hybels) Don't kid yourself. You are addicted to unrighteousness and you can't break out of it by your own strength

( George MacDonald)
    What if God knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most?  What if the main object in God's idea of prayer is a supplying of our great, our endless need-- the need of Himself? Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other needs. Prayer is the beginning of that communion, of talking with God, a coming-to-one with Him, which is the sole end of prayer, yea, of existence itself