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Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.
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Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.
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Let us always guard our tongue not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
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Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure.
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If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.
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We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.
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Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
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How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.
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Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.
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The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.
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A friend is more to be longed for than the light I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends better to live in darkness, than to be without friends
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Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible for it is charity which makes the man.
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Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
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Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.
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Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?
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Slander is worse than cannibalism.
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Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.
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As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
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What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?
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