To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
JOHN BUNYANOur sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.
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Humility is the light of the understanding.
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
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Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.
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To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.
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The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
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Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
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The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
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At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
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To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
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He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
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Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
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