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It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
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Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
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The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
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The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
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Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.
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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
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Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.
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If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
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All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
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Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.
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I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.
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Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.
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To know Jesus Christ for ourselves is to make Him a consolation, delight, strength, righteousness, companion, and end.
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Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
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The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
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Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.
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The very heart and root of sin is in an independent spirit. We erect the idol self; and not only wish others to worship, but worship ourselves.
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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: — they acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced in His will in all things.
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Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God: "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.
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The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.
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The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. Youth are sensual. The Bible stands in their way. It prohibits the indulgence of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
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Never was there a man of deep piety, who has not been brought into extremities — who has not been put into fire — who has been taught to say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him."
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The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.
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In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. Howe
Richard Cecil
Born:
November 8, 1748
Died:
August 15, 1810
(aged 61)
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