"Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will."
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Chuck Smith quotes (page 2 of 2)
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"We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives."
"Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth."
"Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God."
"There's a difference between losing your salvation and leaving your salvation. If you lose something, you don't know where to find it. You can't lose your salvation because you always know where to find it; you can only leave it."
"Our heart is like a reservoir from which our lives flow."
"What we are really lacking today is a real hatred of evil."
"I want the real deal whatever that means and whatever it takes to get there so I've been exploring."
"[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power."