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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of…
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It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
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God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for…
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,…
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Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
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The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
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When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
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God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to…
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The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but…
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The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other…
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We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of…
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He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If…
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been…
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I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan…
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The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.
— Richard Sibbes
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Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and…
— Walter Raleigh
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The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world…
— Francis Quarles
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Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself
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And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place…
— Bible
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