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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.

Adam Clarke

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
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
Al its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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Command Direct Exhortation Happy Man Promise Tendency Wise
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
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
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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Christ Faith Genuine Good Jesus Christ Law Love Productive Remembered Work
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Act Communicate Devotion Fault Great Happiness Happy Other Sacrifice Self

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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