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Burning Quotes

Priceless Nuggets for Maximum Living

Compiled by

Dr. Ferdinand Nweke

Burning Books

Eternity Ministries,

Fort Adullam, Block 11, Flat 1, Spring Valley Estate, Lugbe 1 Extension, (Opposite

AMAC Housing Estate), Airport Road; Abuja, Nigeria.

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ISBN 978-38453-5-7

Copyright © 2008 Burning Books

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

I Have a Desire

Burning Quotes 1-355

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Dedication

To

Paul Abu Kanu

“He was a burning and a shining light”

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Introduction

Welcome to “Burning Quotes”. This book is wired for insight and is intended to

enlarge your understanding and wisdom. After all, “wisdom is the principal thing”

and “through wisdom a house built.”

Burning Quotes will bless you (so will its sister book “Power Points”). Read

them – amazingly you can start at any page! Even if you read from back to front,

every page is loaded with ageless wisdom cloaked in fiery words that are pregnant

with insight.

The omission of the titles of those quoted, though deliberate is not derogatory.

Such seems usual in works of this nature and the tradition has been followed here.

No attempt has been made to organize the quotes into neat headings. Life‟s

challenges do not come in capsules. The potpourri presented, “here a little, there a

little” is intended to stimulate thinking, cultivate understanding and replicate the

victorious lives of many of those quoted.

These quotes are not infallible like Scripture. If you disagree with any, look to

see the angle from which it speaks and assimilate the truth thus conveyed. Repeated

readings of these quotes are bound to impart repeated insights, etching them into the

fabrics of our practical experience.

Happy reading!

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I Have a Desire

I have a desire

Burning like a fire,

For which I will perspire,

And never retire:

That when all is said,

My journey made,

And in the grave I am laid;

It shall be written as my epitaph,

Right next to my photograph,

In just one paragraph:

THIS MAN WALKED WITH GOD

Ferdinand Nweke

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Burning Quotes

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Don‟t bother starting anything you don‟t plan to finish.

Ferdinand Nweke

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I want to plunder hell to populate heaven.

Reinhard Bonnke

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Submit to God financially, resist the devil financially and he will flee from you

financially.

Clive Pick

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Faith only grows in an atmosphere of impossibilities.

Gbile Akanni

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Love bears all things but faith dares all things.

Naankang Garba

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Everyday for the Christian ought to start with a funeral – yours.

James Merritt

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If your vision is not bigger than you, you probably did not get it from heaven.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Above the clouds the sun always shines.

Edwin Louis Cole

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Christ is the One for the one who has no one.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The secret of not loving this world: loving another world.

Ferdinand Nweke

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We must match our open doors with commitment.

Chris Akosa

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The scarcest item in the universe is a pure heart. Do you have it?

Ferdinand Nweke

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God‟s love must be shed abroad in our heats before it can be spread abroad from

our hearts.

W.F. Kumuyi

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We prayed, they said “No”. We prayed, they said “No”. We prayed, they said

“No”. We prayed, they said “No”. We prayed, they said “Yes”.

J.P. Warren

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Faith at prayer – not faith alone but PRAYING FAITH – faith on its knees, is

God‟s appointed master key for every impossibility.

Ferdinand Nweke

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If you lay down your ideal to escape an ordeal you‟ll end up with a raw deal.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Hot times require hot faith and stubborn problems stubborn faith.

Cyprian Ojum

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John Wesley was asked how he drew the crowds that thronged his meetings. His

reply: “I set myself on fire and they come to watch me burn.”

John Wesley

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You can have an untroubled heart in a troubled world.

John Osteen

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Your vision must consume you before it can consume your generation.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Quite often the IS, is not the OUGHT.

I.D. Lawon

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If you don‟t put immorality where it belongs, it will put you where you don‟t

belong.

Ferdinand Nweke

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"Whatever he tells you, do it."

Mary, mother of Jesus Christ (in John 2:5 The Message)

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It doesn‟t cost you much to follow Jesus – just everything.

Keith Green

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Without Holiness

You can sow your seed,

Reap a heap,

“Prosper” – at sizzling speed.

But take heed:

Without holiness –

Nothing else, nothing less,

No man shall see God.

It‟s just like that. Period.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Cut your coat according to your size but make your prayers according to your

God!

Ferdinand Nweke

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God has arranged for you to feel uncomfortable when He is uncomfortable with

you.

Mike Murdoch

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Those who do not know how to manage time will find themselves managed by

those who do.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Every good and perfect gift comes from above not from abroad.

Gbile Akanni

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If you know the reason you can go through the season.

Tunde Bakare

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If you don‟t do it you don‟t believe it.

Sule Paul

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There are no mountains from heaven‟s perspective.

Anonymous

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This is the time to pull out all the stops – to live for God like there is no

tomorrow.

John Hagee

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Healing Streams

Fear not the furnace‟s fire

Flinch not at affliction.

Here is the mystery of salvation:

The seed must die before bearing fruit that abides;

Healing streams only flow freely from wounded sides.

Ferdinand Nweke

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To find the real value of anything, divide it by eternity.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Each step you take to forsake draws you nearer to partake.

Martha ‘TDPC’ Nweke

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A little child was asked to recite Psalm 23 verse 1. He said,

“The Lord is my Shepherd

That‟s all I want.”

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Jesus started His church the way He wanted it and now He wants His church the

way He started it.

Tuned Bakare

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Prayer not only changes things, it changes people.

Leonard Ravenhill

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To follow Christ means to take steps along the pathway of trust roped to the

safest Guide in the universe.

Gbenga Kuti

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Don‟t be a dropout in the race for glory. Heaven will be filled with ex-

candidates of hell and vice versa.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The two most important days in all eternity are this day, and that day.

Martin Luther.

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God is no respecter of mountains.

Ferdinand Nweke

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Edwin Louis Cole

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Think About It

In the light of eternity

All else fade into infinite insignificance

And the glory of His majesty is all that counts.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Commitment starts where convenience stops.

Adelaja Kalejaiye

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Anyone here who has never sinned since he or she was born, raise your hand

and let me pray for a liar!

E.A. Adeboye

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Causes prosper by sacrifice.

Ferdinand Nweke

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There is nothing convenient about the cross. It‟s simply compulsory.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Too many believers shine in the light but are dim in darkness. If you are dark in

the dark you are certainly not the light.

Ferdinand Nweke

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A saver grows rich by seeming poor; a spender grows poor by seeming rich.

Anonymous

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God is not ambitious. What He can ever be, He has always been and will always

be.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Sin is not omnipotent.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The man you convert or fail to convert may save or ruin the world.

Christian Okonkwo

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Any time passion and reason are put in the ring for a fight, reason will always

lose.

Billy Graham

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Like Moses‟ rod swallowed those of Pharaoh‟s magicians, the fear of God in a

man‟s heart will swallow all other fears.

Ferdinand Nweke

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You become an easy prey when you are too busy to pray.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Those that do things that count don‟t stop to count them.

W.F. Kumuyi

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Increased demonic activity or satanic attack is, quite often, a sign of impending

divine intervention.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The best thing about secular television is the knob that turns it off.

John Hagee

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Never say, “Can God?” Rather say “God can!” Don‟t limit God.

John Osteen

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If all Pentecostals become Evangelicals and all Evangelicals become

Pentecostals, the Great Commission will be accomplished.

Hussaini Idris

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Five things the world has never seen:

An untried faith,

A kind devil,

Love that never gives,

Something impossible for God, and

A ticket to heaven that is not free.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Five things the world will never see:

A Scripture that will not come to pass,

A place to hide from God,

A righteous man abandoned by God,

A saviour that did not die on Calvary, and

A liar or an immoral person that will not go to hell.

Ferdinand Nweke

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A mess of pottage messed Esau up. It mustn‟t happen to you.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Prayer is the vehicle of travel in the spirit. The steering wheel is the Word of

God and the fuel is your persistence. There is no wall too thick the prayer can

not plough through.

Roberts Liardon

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Of course faith is a risk but one I will never risk living without.

Desmond Tutu

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Believing prayer and worry are mutually exclusive. Don‟t do one if you are bent

on doing the other.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Woe to the prayerless: the devil shall have them for breakfast.

Ferdinand Nweke

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I found (that) if one wants to stay in the channel of supply, the happiest way is

walk diligently in the path of service.

Rowland V. Bingham

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A belief is not just an idea a person possesses; it is an idea that possesses a

person.

John Mason

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It does not take God time to prosper people; what takes His time is proving

them.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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The only thing Christ will not give to His church, His Body is what He doesn‟t

have.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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A fanatic: Someone who loves Jesus more than you.

E. A. Adeboye

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Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.

Jonah 2:8 N.I.V

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Faith does not come from knowing the promises but from knowing the

Promiser.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Your believing wife is also Christ‟s bride. You will one day give account to her

greater Husband who bought her with His blood and “loaned” her to you.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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When the devil starts messing, God starts blessing.

R.W. Shambach.

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If you believe what God said and say what God said, you cannot be wrong until

God is wrong.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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There are no fruits without seeds: you will reap the fruits of the spirit if you

plant the seeds of the spirit.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Sin plucks a man out of God„s garden and plants him in a wilderness.

Gbile Akanni.

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Those that pray become answers to prayers.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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Oftentimes it is in the classrooms of lack that you learn the principles of plenty.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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Out critics are the unpaid guardians of our souls.

Corrie Ten Boom

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Failure is the manure of success.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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God never promised any blessing to the disobedient.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The man who tries to understand the Trinity will lose his mind. The man who

denies the Trinity will lose his soul.

Bill Bright {quoting his seminary professor}

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Only the crucified qualify for a resurrection.

Ferdinand Nweke

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A chair could never win a contest with the carpenter. A pot must never

precipitate a confrontation with the potter. Reverence God.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the night.

Henry Ward Beecher.

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If sin is not exposed it will ultimately explode.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Supernatural assignments demand supernatural enablement.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

George Washington.

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God makes His masterpieces in hard places.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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Nobody and no devil can make you go under when Jesus says to go over.

Clement Anegbe

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Commit your crises to Christ.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Problems are forerunners of miracles.

John Ade Ajayi

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The greatest act of wisdom is in preparing for eternity; the greatest act of folly in

investing in the temporal.

T. Adebola

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The Name of Jesus has as much power in it as there was in Jesus when He was

here on earth.

Kenneth Hagin

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Here lies a sleeping giant. Let her alone. If she awakes she will shake the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Faith may not know where it is going but it knows who it is going with.

Ferdinand Nweke

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If you have a timid faith you will be intimidated.

R.W. Shambach.

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When you surrender to Jesus your enemies will surrender to you.

Clement Anegbe

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If you will not train your children, the devil will train them for you free of

charge.

Ferdinand Nweke

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A tomb can become a womb: the tomb of Christ became the womb of

Christianity.

Ferdinand Nweke

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It is one thing to get an answer to prayer and another thing to be an answer to

prayer.

Edwin Louis Cole.

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What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

Mike Murdoch

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When you can‟t find a way, don‟t give up, go up.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Faith is putting all your eggs in one basket and hanging them by the rope of

God‟s word.

Ferdinand Nweke

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It takes the quickening Spirit flowing out of a quickened spirit to quicken

another spirit.

Ferdinand Nweke

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God judges only those who would not judge themselves.

Ferdinand Nweke

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You will be known in the world by the problems you solve or the ones you

create.

Ferdinand Nweke

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We are immortal till our work is done.

George Whitefield

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The most expensive item in the universe: you!

Ferdinand Nweke

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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don‟t have any

problems you don‟t get any seeds.

Stanley Arnold

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“Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show

to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them

again no more forever. The LORD shall fight for you and you shall hold your

peace.”

Exodus 14: 13, 14

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All the principal actors of Christianity are invisible. Faith is the bridge that links

the visible to the invisible.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Eternity began when God was “born”. It will end when the immortal God

“dies”. Only then can the inhabitants of hell come out.

Ferdinand Nweke

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To excuse yourself is to accuse yourself.

Uma Ukpai

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There is always a story behind the glory.

Ayo Oritsejafor

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Inflation, deflation and labour activism have never affected the wages of sin. It‟s

still death.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Marriage is life imprisonment. You decide whether to go in with love or with

hard labour.

Emeka Nwankpa

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Progress is a product of successful changes.

Olu Agbana

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Youth is an attitude.

Loren Cunningham

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Disobedience is a virtue – if directed at its origin.

Ferdinand Nweke

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God said you will receive power, not, feel power, when the Holy Spirit comes

on you.

E.A. Adeboye

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Some people have godfathers but the believer has a Father God.

Clement Anegbe

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Seek to know not to be known.

Ferdinand Nweke

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If you will carry your cross and follow Jesus you will eventually find your cross

carrying you, crucified.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Many Americans are alive to be pro-choice (support abortion) today because

their mums were kind enough to be pro-life (oppose abortion) yesterday.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The real problem with hell – the hell of hell is neither the fire nor the smoke nor

even the torment, thirst and hunger but this: FOREVER.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Galatians 6:7

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What the devil thinks he has shaved off for good will re-grow – like Samson‟s

hair.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God.

Bob Pierce

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Life is a bed of roses – with the flowers and thorns all in place.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The most dangerous place to be in the time of battle is in your palace.

Nicholas Duncan Williams

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If God said to go to Canaan, no Red Sea can stop you.

Clement Anegbe

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Sin refused to be satisfied until Christ died. If it was serious enough to cost God

His only son for its atonement, should it not be serious enough to damn eternally

those that refuse to turn from it?

Ferdinand Nweke

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Though I live in this world I will not allow this world to live inside me.

Francis Tom -Omo-Fregene

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The greatest tragedy of the graveyard is not the people buried there but the

dreams that are buried with them.

Ayo Oritsejafor

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If all you have is enough, it is not enough.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Sin insulates men from the power of God.

E. A. Adeboye

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Satan is severely allergic to light.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Vision is never taught, it is caught.

J. P. Warren

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The world is full of evil not because of those who do evil but because of those

who sit and let it happen.

Martin Luther King Jnr.

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Someone asked Evangelist Billy Sunday: “Will cigarette smoking take me to

hell?” He answered: “I don‟t know but you smell as if you have already gone

there”.

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You must be poor in spirit before God but never before the devil.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Sin kills not because of its size but by its venom.

Gbile Akanni

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Empty-handed we came into the world, and empty-handed, beyond question, we

must leave it.

1 Timothy 6:7 {Knox version}

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If Christ must be Lord at all, then He must be Lord now, and Lord of all.

Ferdinand Nweke.

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Sir, some men‟s passion is for gold, other men‟s passion is for fame, but my

passion is for souls.

William Booth

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He is no fool who loses what he cannot keep for that which he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

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Kind and blind may sound alike but they do not spell alike. Don‟t mistake the

first for the second.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Ambition doesn‟t care who he has to walk on to get where he is going.

Gary Whetstone

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Money is a good servant but a bad master. You can have money but may it

never have you.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Some things in life are more important than life itself.

Edwin Louis Cole

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Success is your weight on God‟s eternal scales.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Those who posses the Spirit are children of God. Those who are possessed by

the Spirit are sons of God.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Spiritual strength makes the different between those that breakdown and those

that breakthrough, between those that go under and those that go over.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble, at a touch. You may kick it about

all day like a football and it will be round and full at evening.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Don‟t bother me with things that don‟t border me.

Ferdinand Nweke

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If God can shake you, you can shake anything. If God can defeat you, you can

defeat anything.

Ayo Oritsejafor

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If you want God to use you greatly, you must dig real deep. God will not build a

skyscraper on a bungalow foundation.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Put your dreams on the altar: they will be resurrected in something even

grander.

Loren Cunningham

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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

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Depths beget heights.

Nicholas Duncan Williams

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Faith ignites scriptures.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell.

I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.

C. T. Studd

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The only thing more dumb than making a stupid promise is keeping it.

Anonymous

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If it‟s in the root, it‟s in the fruit. If it‟s in the pulpit it‟s in the pew.

Gary Whetstone

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God usually commands the impossible and than takes your hand and says,

“Let‟s go”.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Make your words sweet for someday you may have to eat them.

Anonymous

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If you must lead the orchestra you will have to face the music.

John Hagee

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Adversity prepares you for prosperity.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Unity in essentials, liberty in non-essentials, charity in all things.

Martin Luther

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You will only become what you are becoming right now.

John Maxwell

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“Remember ye not the former things neither consider the things of old. Behold, I

will do a new thing….”

Isaiah 43:18, 19

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What you choose to use you keep. What you refuse to use you loose.

Ferdinand Nweke

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If you preach the needs of Heaven, Heaven will meet the needs of men.

Ferdinand Nweke

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A church that doesn‟t seek the lost is lost itself.

Reinhard Bonnke

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Contentment is being satisfied with who you are, what you have and where you

are while striving legitimately for what you can become.

Ferdinand Nweke

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I see more when I kneel to pray than I see through the telescope.

Isaac Newton

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The fear of the Holy Spirit is the beginning of wisdom.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Martin Luther

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Flame of God, make me thy fuel.

Amy Carmichael

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Every man ought to pray at least one violent prayer everyday.

Gordon Lindsay

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Sound doctrine is not enjoyed, it is endued.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Educate men without religion and you make them but clever devils.

Arthur Wellesley

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Jesus promised to make us fishers of men not fishers of blessings.

Ferdinand Nweke

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God never made a homosexual. God made a man and he made a woman. He

didn‟t make Adam and Steve; He made Adam and Eve.

Edwin Louis Cole

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The church is dying on her feet because she has refused to live on her knees.

Leonard Ravenhill

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If you wait for perfect conditions you will never get anything done.

Ecclesiastes 11:4 {The Living Bible}

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To detonate a self-destroying spiritual grenade, mix one gallon of anointing with

one teaspoon of truth. Then add a cupful of zeal and stir.

Ferdinand Nweke

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People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

John Maxwell

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Tests generate testimonies; trials father triumphs.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Goliath is not your stumbling block, he is your stepping stone; he is not for your

humiliation, he is for your exaltation.

Ayo Oritsejafor

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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.

Will Rogers

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God will bless you as much as you will obey Him.

Ferdinand Nweke

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I have absolutely no desire to cater for the entertainment needs of carnal

Christians. I‟ll tell you why: I am not coming from Hollywood; I am coming

from Calvary.

Reinhard Bonnke

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If you want an unusual result take an unusual action.

Ferdinand Nweke

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All a branch needs to do to bear fruit is to abide.

Gbile Akanni

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Run a checkpoint – at the gate of your heart.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Prayer brings divine omnipotence crashing into human impotence.

Ferdinand Nweke

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JUDAS

Still as of old men by themselves are priced –

For thirty pieces, Judas sold

Himself, not Christ.

Hester H. Cholmondelay

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Compassion is the irresistible urge to rid someone of a problem.

Richard Roberts

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Christ is the truth in whom there is no lie.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Brethren, be great believers. Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but

great faith will bring heaven to your souls.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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The future belongs to the righteous.

Emmanuel Nuhu Kure

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The broken become masters at mending.

Mike Murdoch

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When the devil fell out of heaven, he fell in my choir.

Martin Luther

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Well then, if you teach others, why don't you teach yourself? You tell others not

to steal, but do you steal? You say it is wrong to commit adultery, but do you do

it? You condemn idolatry, but do you steal from pagan temples? You are so

proud of knowing the law, but you dishonor God by breaking it. No wonder the

Scriptures say, "The world blasphemes the name of God because of you."

Romans 2:21-24 NLT

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How many people do you know who became successful at something they hate?

John Mason

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A person may go to heaven without wealth, without beauty, without learning,

without fame, without culture {and} without friends but no one can go to heaven

without Christ.

Tract by Distribution of Christian Literature

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If God came to your town to award prices to the best Christian, would you be

short listed?

Ferdinand Nweke

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With three pennies and God, one can do anything.

Mother Theresa

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Never make an idol out of what God made you.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The only thing you can achieve without effort is failure. Every great

accomplishment begins with a decision to try.

John Hagee

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If you will take the trouble to trust God, God will take care of the troubles life

may thrust at you.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Anointing attract attacks.

E. A. Adeboye

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220

Your prayers reflect the size of your God.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The reality is Mr. Right doesn‟t exist. Miss Right doesn‟t either. The best you

can hope for is Mr. Almost.

T. D. Jakes

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Christ is not stranded when you are stranded: where and when you can‟t see a

way He can see more than a thousand.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken

seriously.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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Stop struggling and start trusting

Ferdinand Nweke

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Where is hell? At the end of a Christless life.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The heights by great men reached and kept,

Were not attained by sudden flight.

But they while others slept,

Were toiling upwards into the night.

Thomas Alva Edison

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God should not be our last resort but our first.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Satan makes people doubt what he himself believes.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Sheaves never come in – they are brought in.

John Hagee

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The LORD bless thee, and keep thee.

The LORD make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee.

The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Number 6: 24 26

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Lord, bend your Church and save the world.

Evan Roberts

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God is not a taker; He is a giver.

Clement Anegbe

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God is more interested in where you are going than where you are coming from.

Ferdinand Nweke

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If you rebuke it and it doesn‟t move ask it if it is God.

Gary Whetstone

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If you don‟t take a break you could break.

Ferdinand Nweke

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By their fruits you shall know them, not by their gifts.

Mike Okonkwo

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For many, all things are possible with God except holiness.

Ferdinand Nweke

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There might never have been a Samuel without a Peninah.

Ferdinand Nweke

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We can always proof that we are right but is the Lord convinced?

Proverb 16:2 {The Living Bible}

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It is necessary and sufficient to know Jesus Christ.

Ejike Anene

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“Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice…” So Rebecca told Jacob.

God also will take personal responsibility for the failures of the man that will

obey His voice.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

Anonymous

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I am of the old school – I pray with my eyes closed.

E.A. Adeboye

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If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to

convict you?

Anonymous

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Learn not to be mean in the meanwhile – while waiting for the manifestation of

God‟s vision for your life.

Gary Whetstone

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The only ultimate tragedy we can experience on earth is to feel at home here.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than

saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Master,

You are not a taskmaster;

Love under-girds your call

To one and all.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Jesus Christ is the eternal solution to the infernal wiles of hell.

Ferdinand Nweke

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There is one thing we do on earth we will continue to do in heaven. That is to

praise and worship God. That is why we view life on earth, for those who love

Jesus, as choir practice for heaven.

Michael Coleman

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Success is the progressive realization of a predetermined goal.

John Maxwell

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Only a fool wins a battle with his or her spouse.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Trying to possess the future while clinging to the past, is like driving down the

highway with your eyes glued to the rear-view mirror.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Winston Churchill

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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Time is what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst.

William Penn

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Some people work for God so hard with such sour faces that they never heard

that God wants to work for them.

Reinhard Bonnke

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God can rain down manna or fire from heaven depending on the one you

provoke.

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Ferdinand Nweke

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A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn‟t.

Anonymous

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You will know if you bound by the spirit of religion or tradition if the word

“Rich” makes you nervous.

J.P. Warren

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Politicians and bridegrooms have one thing in common: they both tend to forget

their campaign promises after they are elected. If the promises are not fulfilled,

your holy wedlock may become a holy deadlock.

Uma Ukpai

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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Failure may look like a fact, but it‟s just an opinion.

John Mason

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All that the Father has, all that Jesus has, all that the Holy Ghost has, we have

access into.

Smith Wiggleworth

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Whatever the job is, the best way to qualify for the next one is to do a great job

at this one.

Zig Ziglar

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If your riches are yours, why don‟t you take them with you to the other world?

Benjamin Franklin

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You may get what you want but you may not want what you got.

Ferdinand Nweke

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God loves you just the way you are, but He loves you too much to leave you the

way you are.

John Mason

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Poverty has killed her thousand; prosperity has killed her ten thousand.

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Anonymous

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Whatever makes men good Christian makes them good citizens.

Daniel Webster

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God does not do for us what He has enabled us to do for ourselves.

John Edmund Haggai

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God is as endless in wisdom, love, holiness and power as He is in time. All His

divine attributes are as infinite as is eternal.

Ferdinand Nweke

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I‟ll rather die trusting God than live a whole life in unbelief.

Smith Wigglesworth

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The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.

D.L. Moody

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He who does the work is not so profitably employed as he who multiplies the

doers.

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John Morley

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Genuine freedom is found only in Christ and his kingdom.

Ferdinand Nweke

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God is more dangerous than anything created.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Not one of us has a blank page in the books of the Recording Angel.

George Barnard Shaw

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Every man walks on the brink of eternity; every unsaved soul hangs on the

precipice of everlasting destruction.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Many a scripture is written and directed TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Chindo Nkenke

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I believe that providence guides the affairs of men, and never a sparrow falls to

the ground that God does not attend its funeral, and that all the hairs of our

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heads are numbered. I don‟t believe that an empire or a republic can be launched

without His help, and I move, Mr. President, that this convention open with

prayer, and that we petition Divine guidance and help in the step we are about to

take.

Benjamin Franklin

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That we are Pentecostals does not mean that we have committed intellectual

suicide.

Francis Wale Oke

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Prayer generates the strength that executes divine purpose.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Anonymous

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We should pray when we are in a praying mood for it would be sinful to neglect

so fair a chance. We should pray when we are not in a praying mood for it

would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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God will never trust you with twenty until He has tested you with two.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Spiritual hunger attracts divine intervention: “Blessed are they that hunger and

thirst for they shall be filed”.

Ferdinand Nweke

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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that

it behoves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The deed is the greatest indicator of the seed that lies within.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Prayer is not serious until it is righteous.

Ferdinand Nweke

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A full heart is better than a full head on a full stomach.

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Ferdinand Nweke

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Earth is a poor storage place for precious things.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Most of the trouble in the world today is caused by educated fools. An educated

mind is like a sharp knife: it can be used for good or evil.

Derek Prince

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There is no Pentecost without plenty-cost.

John Edmund Haggai

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Those who tell lies don‟t believe truth.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Sin may be covert, but the consequences present and eternal will be overt.

Ferdinand Nweke

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In the battle between light and darkness there are no demilitarized zones.

Ron Kenoly

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God did not ask for collaterals before investing in you.

Ferdinand Nweke

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I am not waiting for the undertaker. I am waiting for the upper-taker.

Anthony Evans.

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Faults are thick where love is thin.

J. Howell

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When your hand is closed nothing comes out of it alright, but nothing goes in.

Ayo Oritsejafor

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I don‟t know how to quit – nobody ever taught me.

Richard Ford

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Some of you wonder why preachers drink water while preaching. It‟s to keep

the sermon from getting dry!

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Charles Capps

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Billy Graham said that:

The smallest package he ever saw was a man wrapped up wholly in himself.

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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure

maps are of the earth.

Calvin Miller

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The devil is a liar and so is his mother-in-law

Nicholas Duncan Williams

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The key to a healthy marriage is to keep your eyes wide open before you wed

and half-closed thereafter.

Anonymous

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Truth is, like fuel, highly inflammable. Your only need is for the spark of faith.

Ferdinand Nweke

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“Stand therefore “{Ephesians 6:14}. He didn‟t say, “Run therefore.” He didn‟t

say, “Fall therefore.” We stand in the midst of trouble. Resist the devil and he

will flee.

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Chris Oyakhilome

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Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Thomas Moore

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When you get to the Red Sea don‟t look for a boat – it will not do. You need the

supernatural power of God.

Morris Cerullo

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The written Word was given, not as an end in itself, but that thereby, we might

know the living Word.

Ferdinand Nweke

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That you did it does not make you it.

Mike Okonkwo

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Christians don‟t like to talk about hypocrisy any more than turkeys like to talk

about Thanksgiving.

Keith Green

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When God gave birth to the Body of Christ He never intended it to have any

limits.

Morris Cerullo

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Only a few men live to an old age, and fewer still become successful who are

not early risers.

Benjamin Franklin

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We need to make contentment a member of our internal board of directors.

Anonymous

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Today‟s tragedy: people who know the words of the Book but not God of the

Book. Thus there is a gaping chasm between the truth they know and the truth

they experience.

Ferdinand Nweke

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In the early church the Word of God did not spread from tabernacle to

tabernacle or from pulpit to pulpit or from denomination to denomination but

from HOUSE TO HOUSE.

Morris Cerullo

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Your ability to rest in the midst of trouble is an outward expression of your

inward confidence in God.

Ayo Oritsejafor

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Elijah was a man of like passion with us – he ate what we ate, drank what we

drank, walked where we walked, and ran, like us, when discouraged. But when

he prayed, we played.

Ferdinand Nweke

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I am a hope dealer. I didn‟t say “dope”, I said “hope”.

Richard ford

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The saint in a wrong place and the sinner in the right place are of the same

feather.

Tuned Bakare

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Don‟t seek to be known. Seek to know me and the heavenly manna. When you

have known me and the heavenly manna, you shall be known.

Nicholas Duncan Williams

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I have told My people that they can have what they say but My people are

saying what they have.

Charles Capps

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Be kind to the people you meet on your way to the top. You may meet them

again on your way down.

Anonymous

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Adversity is a place of information – you discover what you truly believe.

Mike Murdock

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Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the way you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As big as ever you can.

John Wesley

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The greatest proof of faith is not your creed but your deed.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The dream that is inside you is bigger then the circumstances that surround

you…. The man with a God-dream doesn‟t blend in, he stands out.

J. P. Warren

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The pleasures of sin are for a season but the wages of sin are unceasing.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Grace kills before if fills.

Ferdinand Nweke

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When one bases his life on principle, 99% of his decisions are already made.

Anonymous

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God is not interested in nor impressed by anything that is not connected with

Calvary.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Get radical or get out.

Brother Andrew

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If we would venture more upon the naked promise of God, we should enter a

world of wonders to which as yet we are strangers.

Charles Spurgeon

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I want to live to the uttermost for that which is uppermost in the heart of God.

Ferdinand Nweke

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Above all things do not touch Christianity unless you are willing to seek the

kingdom first. I promise you a miserable existence if you seek it second.

Henry Drummond

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Our world is under an invasion from hell: a counter-invasion from heaven holds

the answer.

Ferdinand Nweke

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There is a place of death to self where Christ reigns in the body. Then all is well.

Smith Wigglesworth

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Clarity comes by seeing through the divine prism.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The day is coming when hypocrites will be stripped of their fig leaves.

Matthew Henry

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A committee is a group that keeps minutes but wastes hours.

Anonymous

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow‟s too lazy to form an

opinion.

Will Rogers

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If you find the broken mend them; if you find the hardened, break them.

Ferdinand Nweke

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The thoughts of men speak louder in heaven than do their words on earth.

Gordon Lindsay

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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Phillips Brooks

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Eternity is the age of God.

Ferdinand Nweke

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In walking with God we must not only be correct, we must be current as well.

Ferdinand Nweke

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When we preach on hell, we might at least do it with tears in our eyes.

D. L. Moody

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No. I don‟t reckon I know for sure if hell is full of fire and brimstone, but I do

know you ain‟t gonna like it.

Billy Sunday, responding to a reporter’s question.

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Habits are like a cable: we weave a strand of it everyday and suddenly it cannot

be broken.

Horace Mann

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The years teach much that the days never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Look upward – Christ will soon come.

Look forward – that‟s where your future is.

Look onward – far beyond the trials of today.

W. F. Kumuyi

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Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

Charles Spurgeon