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He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
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A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees…
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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God,…
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If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least,…
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We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.
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Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and…
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The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made…
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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it…
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Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God…
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As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams;…
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If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in…
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Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him…
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
— Aristotle
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
— Francis Bacon
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
— Joseph Addison
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
— Edmund Burke
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party…
— Nicolas Cage
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Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.
— Ed Coan
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in…
— Vita Sackville-West
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
— John Ruskin
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No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,…
— John Donne
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