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“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
“Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.”
“The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.”
“The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness.”
“We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.”
“You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.”
“How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!”
“Giving is true having.”
“I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!”
“One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.”
“A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.”
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
“We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.”
“There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!”
“However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.”
“It is not well to make great changes in old age.”
“Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.”
“Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.”
“You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.”
“We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.”