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All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Alexander MacLaren

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And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.
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All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our hope, our portion, and our joy. Oh, brethren, if you would know the meaning of the world, read Christ in it. If you would see the beauty of earth, take it for a prophet of something higher than itself.
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The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.
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The grave has a door on its inner side.
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To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we 'being in the way,' the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us.
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Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
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He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.
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We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
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God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.
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There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
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Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
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The grace of God, says Luther, is like a flying summer shower. It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
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Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him.
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Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'
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That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.
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Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.
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If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.
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The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection.
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