Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
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I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
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We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.
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If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
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You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
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Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.
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Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
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The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
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I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
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Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
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Of two evils choose neither.
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Feel for othersin your pocket.
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It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.
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