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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…
• It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
• God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
• When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for…
• Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,…
• Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
• The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
• When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
• God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to…
• The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but…
• The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other…
• 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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