Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
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You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.Charles Simeon
No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
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The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.
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I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
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The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
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