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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

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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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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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The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
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The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
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That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.
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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 must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.
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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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Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong and the epitaph for the sinner is, Thou fool!
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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past it is possible to be sure of the future it is possible to be diligent in the present.
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The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?
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I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.
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There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
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Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.
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The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
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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 more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.
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