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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Adam Clarke

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
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin – natural, which is common and the same to all – patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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Common Considered Family Human Man Natural Origin Patronymic Race Same Twofold
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
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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Blessing Condemns God Grace Humble Show Sin
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
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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Happiness Infinite Infinity Merit Perfect Purchased Value
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
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
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
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Cleansed Completely Death Die Fit Glory Sanctified Sin State
Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
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Cease God Man Refuse Run Running Send Woe
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
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
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other’s praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher
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Emotion God Man Pride Revelation Self Teacher Vanity
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Christian InspirationalTongue Heart Prayer Require
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
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
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
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
If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Faithful Servant God Heart Honor Spirit
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
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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Excellencies Immutable Infancy Man Mean Progress Watch
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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Absurd Air Cannot Existence God Jesus Christ Saw Wind
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
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
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
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
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Bible God Holiness Man Precept Promise Reasonableness Wise

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