When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
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I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.David Brainerd
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
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I love to be a pilgrim and stranger in this wilderness it seems most fit for such a poor ignorant, worthless, despised creature as I.
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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
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My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.
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