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“Bond came to the conclusion that Tilly Masterton was one of those girls whose hormones had got mixed up. He knew the type well and thought they and their male counterparts were a direct consequence of giving votes to women and 'sex equality.' As a result of fifty years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused, not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits--barren and full of frustrations, the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. He was sorry for them, but he had no time for them.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

“It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Think of the last thing you prayed about—were you devoted to your desire or to God? Was your determination to get some gift of the Spirit for yourself or to get to God? “For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him” (Matthew 6:8). The reason for asking is so you may get to know God better. “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart” (Psalm 37:4). We should keep praying to get a perfect understanding of God Himself.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Many of us are faithful to our ideas about Jesus Christ, but how many of us are faithful to Jesus Himself?”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ, even when I can’t see the way ahead.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“6     n Lift up your eyes to the heavens,         and look at the earth beneath;      o for the heavens vanish like smoke,         the earth will wear out like a garment,         and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; [2]      p but my salvation will be forever,         and my righteousness will never be dismayed.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you. God will turn what might have been into a wonderful lesson of growth for the future.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“ We have no right to decide where we should be placed, or to have preconceived ideas as to what God is preparing us to do. God engineers everything; and wherever He places us, our one supreme goal should be to pour out our lives in wholehearted devotion to Him in that particular work. “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might . . .” (Ecclesiastes 9:10).”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,         because the LORD has  t anointed me     to bring good news to the poor; [1]         he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,     to proclaim liberty to the captives,         and  u the opening of the prison to those who are bound;”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“In Luke 10:20, Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice in successful service, and yet this seems to be the one thing in which most of us do rejoice. We have a commercialized view—we count how many souls have been saved and sanctified, we thank God, and then we think everything is all right. Yet our work only begins where God’s grace has laid the foundation. Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“your salvation comes;     behold, his reward is with him,         and his recompense before him.” 12     j And they shall be called The Holy People,         The Redeemed of the LORD;      k and you shall be called Sought Out,         A City Not Forsaken.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.+ 19Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,+ 20for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.”
― Tyndale, NLT Study Bible

“ Are you seeking great things for yourself, instead of seeking to be a great person? God wants you to be in a much closer relationship with Himself than simply receiving His gifts—He wants you to get to know Him. Even some large thing we want is only incidental; it comes and it goes. But God never gives us anything incidental. There is nothing easier than getting into the right relationship with God, unless it is not God you seek, but only what He can give you.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable, the Saviour's precious blood is the universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my heart melts as wax before the fire.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, MORNING AND EVENING: DAILY READINGS

“The LORD’s Mercy Remembered     7 I will recount the steadfast love of the LORD,         the praises of the LORD,     according to all that the LORD has granted us,          u and the great goodness to the house of Israel     that he has granted them according to his compassion,         according to the abundance of his steadfast love.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“New Heavens and a New Earth     17 “For behold,  k I create new heavens         and a new earth,     and the former things shall not be remembered         or come into mind. 18    But be glad and rejoice forever         in that which I create;     for behold,  l I create Jerusalem to be a joy,         and her people to be a gladness. 19     m I will rejoice in Jerusalem         and be glad in my people;      n no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping         and the cry of distress.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“Without wisdom, man is as the wild ass's colt, running hither and thither, wasting strength which might be profitably employed. Wisdom is the compass by which man is to steer across the trackless waste of life; without it he is a derelict vessel, the sport of winds and waves.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, MORNING AND EVENING: DAILY READINGS

“But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.”
― Anonymous

“Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity. Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders prayer, brings darkness over the soul; therefore be not the serf and bondman of sin.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, MORNING AND EVENING: DAILY READINGS

“6I will watch over and care for them, and I will bring them back here again. I will build them up and not tear them down. I will plant them and not uproot them.+ 7I will give them hearts that recognize me as the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me wholeheartedly.”
― Tyndale, NLT Study Bible

“Our life derives all its strength from God; and if he deigns to make us strong, we cannot be weakened by all the machinations of the adversary. "Of whom shall I be afraid?" The bold question looks into the future as well as the present. "If God be for us, who can be against us," either now or in time to come?”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, MORNING AND EVENING: DAILY READINGS

“ When Jesus drives something home to you through His Word, don’t try to evade it. If you do, you will become a religious impostor. Examine the things you tend simply to shrug your shoulders about, and where you have refused to be obedient, and you will know why you are not growing spiritually. As Jesus said, “First . . . go . . . .” Even at the risk of being thought of as fanatical, you must obey what God tells you.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to him who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are his before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time! Amen.”
― Anonymous

“These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses from the Sermon on the Mount with your head, you will dull the appeal to your heart.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“I will judge each of you, O people of Israel, according to your actions, says the Sovereign LORD. aRepent, and aturn from your sins. Don’t let them destroy you!+ 31Put all your rebellion behind you, and find yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O people of Israel?+ 32I don’t want you to die, says the Sovereign LORD. bTurn back and live!”
― Tyndale, NLT Study Bible

“There was never a revival of religion without a revival of his opposition. As soon as Ezra and Nehemiah begin to labor, Sanballat and Tobiah are stirred up to hinder them. What then? We are not alarmed because Satan hindereth us, for it is a proof that we are on the Lord's side, and are doing the Lord's work, and in his strength we shall win the victory, and triumph over our adversary.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, MORNING AND EVENING: DAILY READINGS

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
― Anonymous

“ When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason—God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest