"I can imagine no truth more suited to man's needs than this. Rules, and principles, and prescriptions, and instructions in times of sorrow are all very well in their way — but what the human heart craves is a personal friend to go to, to talk to, to lean back upon, and commune with. The risen Christ, living and interceding for us at God's right hand, is precisely the Person that we need." ― J.C. Ryle
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"Having a Master and Teacher means that there is Someone who knows me better than I know myself, Who is closer than a friend, and Who understands the remotest depths of my heart and is able to satisfy them fully. It means having Someone Who has made me secure in the knowledge that He has met and solved all the doubts, uncertainties, and problems in my mind. Jesus wants us in a relationship where He is so easily our Master and Teacher that all we know is that we are His to obey." ― Oswald Chambers
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"We do not find Christ in the dusty annals of history. We find Christ in the hearts of redeemed men and women. He is alive forevermore, and His voice resonates within the heart of every believer. I have only one hope in life and that is to be used by God. I pray that God might humble me so that I understand that I am just an instrument in his hands." ― A.W. Tozer
