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- If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
- Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
- The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke…
- If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to…
- The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
- Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus…
- What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for…
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