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I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in…
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their…
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom…
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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to…
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your…
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can…
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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for…
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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any…
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The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts…
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Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be…
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are…
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For who would live if life held no allurements?
— Lewis Howard Latimer
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I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it…
— Homer
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My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to…
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Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.
— Nicolas Poussin
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and…
— Johann Arndt
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The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and…
— Winston Churchill
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Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external…
— John Calvin
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