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• I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in…
• As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their…
• The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom…
• First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
• Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to…
• When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your…
• The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can…
• We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for…
• Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any…
• The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts…
• Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be…
• As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are…

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