Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKEIt 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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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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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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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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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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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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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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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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The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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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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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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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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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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