This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

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The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

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