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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
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The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
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Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
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Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
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Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.
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Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.
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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
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