"Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart."
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"The prayer that is faithless is fruitless."
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"The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight."
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"Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh."
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"It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning."
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"Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires."
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"What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin."
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"Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and conscience friends. Do with your hearts as you do with your watches, wind them up every morning by prayer, and at night examine whether your hearts have gone true all that day, whether the wheels of your affections have moved swiftly toward heaven."
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"The Kingdom of grace is nothing but.... the beginning of the Kingdom of glory; the Kingdom of grace is glory in the seed, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the flower; the Kingdom ofgrace is glory in the daybreak, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the full meridian; the Kingdom of grace is glory militant, and the Kingdom of glory is grace triumphant.... the Kingdom ofgrace leads to the Kingdom of glory."
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"Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father."
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"To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their hearts with joy till they run over."
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"Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away."
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"We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows."
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"There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction."
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"Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?"
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"He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith."
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"Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones."
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"If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed."
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"Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight."
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"God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder."
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