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- There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you…
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the…
- When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses…
- O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as…
- You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious…
- When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by…
- What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood of…
- Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the…
- The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything…
- I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a…
- Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To…
- Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass…
- All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace…
- All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of…
- Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time…
- Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than…
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