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When one attempts to sanctify himself by effort, he is trying to make his boat go by pushing against the mast. He is like a drowning man trying to lift himself out of the water by pulling at the hair of his own head.

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Mortification itself, when once practised, is the greatest pleasure in the world.

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Pain, if patiently endured, and sanctified to us, is a great purifier of our corrupted nature.

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It is just because there is so much of that self-life in us that the power of God cannot work in us as mightily as God is willing that it should work.

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Reflect the character of Christ and you will become like Christ.

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It is not to mend the old house, but to pull down all, and build a-new on Christ, the rock and sure foundation. It is not to mend somewhat in a carnal course of life, but to mortify the flesh, and live after the spirit.

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A ministry may be a very thoughtful ministry without prayer; the preacher may secure fame and popularity without prayer; the whole machinery of the preacher’s life and work may be run without the oil of prayer or with scarcely enough to grease one cog; but no ministry can be a spiritual one, securing holiness in the preacher and in his people, without prayer being made an evident and controlling force.

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The new will is a permanent gift, an attribute of the new nature. The power to do is not a permanent gift, but must be each moment received from the Holy Spirit. It is the man who is conscious of his own impotence as a believer who will learn that by the Holy Spirit he can live a holy life.

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Let us make our part of it good, that it may be able to abide the fire, when hay and stubble shall be burned to ashes.

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This is not a change in one, or two, or twenty points, but in the whole soul, and in the very end and bent of the conversation.

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The cause of the weakness of your Christian life is that you want to work it out partly, and to let God help you. And that cannot be. You must come to be utterly helpless, to let God work, and God will work gloriously.