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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
- Perseverance
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- Nov 07, 2020
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving is true having.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
- Golden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
- Evils
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of two evils, choose neither.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
- Distinguishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.
- Nov 07, 2020
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?
- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.
- Hammering
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- Nov 07, 2020
One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!
- Nov 07, 2020
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.
- Daily Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.
- Jesus Christ
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- Nov 07, 2020
O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The 'many mansions' are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020