"God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity."
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"God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean."
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"There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness."
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"None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full."
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"When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts."
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"The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure."
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"A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face."
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"Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away."
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"This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called."
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""If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing.""
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"He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour, what hazards will he run! He will swim to the throne in blood.... Love heaven, and you cannot miss it; love breaks through all opposition-it takes heaven by storm."
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"The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them."
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