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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to…
— Francis of Assisi
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
— William Shakespeare
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Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.
— Morley Safer
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
— William Shakespeare
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What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him,…
— Richard Sibbes
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The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all…
— Seneca the Younger
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Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.
— Benjamin Franklin
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How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.
— Mark Lowry
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