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- If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul,…
- Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
- We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our…
- Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms…
- The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify…
- Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom…
- All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.
- Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion…
- When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,…
- Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;…
- To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive,…
- He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every…
- In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption…
- Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul…
- Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can…
- ...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be…
- The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly…
- Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to…
- The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and…
- Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide