"When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers."
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"For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light."
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"We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own."
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"Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God."
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"Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer."
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"I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ."
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"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."
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"While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God."
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"Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel."
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"When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly."
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"Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve"
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"Humility is the beginning of true intelligence."
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"If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon."
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"We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown."
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"God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation."
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"Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity."
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"The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!"
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"To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts."
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"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice."
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