"I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master."
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"God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts."
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"The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out, by typical sacrifices and ablutions, the way in which forgiveness was to be sought and obtained. But grace, to relieve us from the condemnation of the one, and truth answerable to the types and shadows of the other, came by Jesus Christ."
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"What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?"
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"How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace."
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"My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one."
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"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear."
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"The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word."
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"I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself."
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"We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage."
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"How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!"
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"Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus."
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"If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!"
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"Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home."
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"I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)"
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"A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation."
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"Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord."
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"There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes."
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"I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless."
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"Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner."
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