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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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In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is…
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Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
— John Milton
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
— Samuel Johnson
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Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds…
— John Donne
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Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.
— Marcus Brigstocke
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Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied…
— Robert Boyle
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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed withtalkative…
— Anthony Sampson
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