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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

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Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast.

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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.

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There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

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Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

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We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

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If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

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The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

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God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

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Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, but will be crowned.

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The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

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The more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

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The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

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The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

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Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

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Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!

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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

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Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

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We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

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