morning thoughts

"O God, it is amazing that men can talk so much
      about man's creaturely power and goodness,
  when, if thou didst not hold us back every
      moment, we should be devils incarnate."

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"I rejoice to think that all things are at [God's] disposal,
     and it delights me to leave them there."

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"God has objective existence independent of and apart from any notions which we may have concerning Him. The worshiping heart does not create its Object. It finds Him here when it wakes from its moral slumber in the morning of its regeneration."

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"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. He who fears has not been made perfect in love."

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"For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world--our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"

excerpts read this morning from The Valley of Vision, The Pursuit of God (AW Tozer), and 1 John. May they comfort & provoke thoughts as they did for me.