"If you have indeed been so highly distinguished,……" — Charles Simeon
"If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and rose again?’ Should any thing short of absolute perfection satisfy you? Should you not labour to ‘stand perfect and complete in all the will of God?’"
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Charles Simeon
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16 Quotes by Charles Simeon
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Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him…
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The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever…
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Learn, brethren, before it be too late, that ‘without Christ you can do nothing:’ that ‘all your fresh springs are…
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However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling.
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You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how…
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Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as…
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I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
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No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
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Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
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With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have…
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