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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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When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us…
— Richard Sibbes
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Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
— Joseph Nye
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I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
— Louis MacNeice
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The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.…
— Pope Benedict XIV
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In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love…
— Marilyn Monroe
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He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and…
— John Steinbeck
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All Ur armies, all Ur fighters, n all Ur strength, against a boy, holding a stone, standing there all alone. In his…
— Eenah
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