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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 the world.
- When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed,…
- The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived;…
- Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own…
- Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
- I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting…
- Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly…
- If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
- Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send…
- I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.
- This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt…
- My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements.…
- O my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for…
- God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul…
- In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with…
- In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life.…
- Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and…
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