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• We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!

  Hudson Taylor

  Truth, Home, Dwelling

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• Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  People, Victory, Levels

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• Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Silence, Solitude

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• I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

  Anne Askew

  Bible, Religion, Church

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• If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

  Asahel Nettleton

  Mean, Soul, Honor

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• There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

  Martin Luther

  Two, Calendars, Today

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• Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

  David Brainerd

  Men, People, Devil

  Johnathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1835). “Life and Journal of Rev. Dav. Brainerd”, p.88

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• Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

  Martin Luther

  Heaven, Luther, Feels

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• We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Born, Dies

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1965). “Men of the New Testament”

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• In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it. I perceived the men were in some measure afraid of me; and I discoursed something about sanctifying the sabbath, if possible to solemnize their minds: but when they were at a little distance, they again talked freely about secular affairs. Oh, I thought what a hell it would be, to live with such men to eternity!

  David Brainerd

  Morning, Distance, Men

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.142

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• Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

  David Brainerd

  Delight, World, Hours

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.50

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• We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Civilization, Solitude

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• Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

  William Gurnall

  Nero, Prisoner

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.1

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• Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

  David Brainerd

  Greatness, Sensual, Riches

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.122

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• What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Men, Heaven, Earth

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• God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

  William Gurnall

  Son, Blood, Saint

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.29

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• All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.

  William Carey

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Missions

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• I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence.

  David Brainerd

  Kindness, Exercise, Thinking

  David Brainerd, Ebenezer Pemberton (1765). “An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd: Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age. Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published”, p.103

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• Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

  David Brainerd

  Night, Soul, Rejoice

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.181

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• A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

  Martin Luther

  Reading, Men, Doe

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• We should die relying on grace alone

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Should, Dies

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Dark, Night

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Serious, Clown

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Judas, Heard, Sermons

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• The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.

  Oswald Chambers

  Believe, Needs

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.584, Discovery House

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