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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.

Adam Clarke

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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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Energies Stagnate
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 Must Nothing Preacher Seem
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 Jesus Christ Productive Remembered
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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Attendant Heard Saw
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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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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Revelation Self Vanity
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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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 Restoration
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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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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Merely Real Signify Some Word
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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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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Jesus Christ Name Particular Think
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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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 Eminence Memorial 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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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 Greater Thing
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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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 Jesus Jesus Christ Original Trusting
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Deeply Holy Read Scripture
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Christian InspirationalTongue Require
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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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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Conveying Idea Mean Multitude Notion Proper Reader Word Writer
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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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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Communicate Devotion Fault Happy Other Self
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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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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