"As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two."
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"Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness."
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"That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face."
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"Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick."
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"No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him."
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"The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face."
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"He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it."
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"A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation."
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"Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish."
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"He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end."
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"He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass."
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"The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty."
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"The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us."
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"Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle."
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"Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ."
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"There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes."
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"Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen."
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"Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves."
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"Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life is granted to us in election, promised in our vocation, sealed in our justification, possessed in our glorification. Conclude then, faithfully to thy own soul. I believe, therefore I am justified; I am justified, therefore I am sanctified; I am sanctified, therefore I am called; I am called, therefore I am elected; I am elected, therefore I shall be saved. Oh! settled comfort of joy, which ten thousand devils shall never make void."
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"Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee."
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