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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect

Adam Clarke

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
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Act Communicate Devotion Fault Great Happiness Happy Other Sacrifice Self
All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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Abuse Creation Creator Creature God Property Robbery Spoil Waste
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
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Argument Conveying Idea Mean Multitude Notion Proper Reader Word Writer
This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
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Answer Appear God Knowing Name Particular Patience Person Remember Think Waiting
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands.
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Approach Bible Island King People Sea Verse
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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Ascertained Clarkes Easily Extraction Family Norman People
Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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God Jesus Christ Name Particular People Person Remember Think Thinking
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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Connection Detained Evil Moral Papist Physical Soul
He will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
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Enable Hand Jesus Christ Pleased Prosper Satan Sin Strong
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Christian InspirationalTongue Heart Prayer Require
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Assuming Deeply Dense Frequently Grab Humility Mask Pride Under
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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Believe God Nothing Pray Praying Soul State Trust
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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Action Allow Energies Energy Faith Happiness Secret Stagnate Trust
They must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
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Forfeit Good Lose Multitude Opinion Reputation Soul
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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Expect Gospel. Preacher Honor Jesus Jesus Christ Look Resurrection
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
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Account Attendant Degree Heard History Lord Saw Spirit
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man’s heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.
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Care Christian Heart Obstacle People Pharisees Prayer Pride Salvation Scribe Self Vanity
It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing
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Chance Ignorance Man Nature Philosophically Real Reason Strictly
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Consider Deeply Duty Holy Interest Read Scripture
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God
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Apostle Follower Forward Hope Jesus Jesus Christ Man Original Patience Spirit Strong Trusting
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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Arrived Degree Eminence Fame Memorial Person Private Public Regretted Written
To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.
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Fill Filled Fullness Great Greater Thing
This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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Creating Holiness Jesus Jesus Christ Likeness Man Perfection Restoration
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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Absorbed Gift Man Must Nothing Preacher Seem
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father’s house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
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Busy Dark Death Entry Father Good Little Man Room
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
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Assert Infinite More Perfection Source Suppose
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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Accident Cause Ignorance Merely Real Signify Some Word

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect

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