"The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust."
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"The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented."
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"Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy."
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"True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them."
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"Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord."
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"Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols."
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"Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments."
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"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
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"Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer."
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"Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result."
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"If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God."
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"He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts."
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"Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves."
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"The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love."
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"I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew."
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"Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace."
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"Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ."
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"We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness."
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"It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself."
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"Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction."
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