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“In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christs hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the...”
“If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?”
“Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin, than to confirm holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.”
“By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.”
“Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all ...”
“The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.”
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
“True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.”
“To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.”
“Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the hear...”
“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions”
“He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be his guide and protector, and to bless him in his affairs [. . .] That unconverted men are without ...”
“The best most beautiful and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.”
“A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.”
“The material universe exists only in the mind.”
“Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.”
“All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.”
“Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these pr...”
“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.”
