Immediately it stuck into my mind, Leave off preaching. How can you preach to others, who have not faith yourself I asked Boehler, whether he thought I should leave it off or not. He answered By no means. I asked, But what can I preach He said, Preach faith till you have it and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.
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The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities.
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I expect to pass through this world but once any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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I was of the '60s, and there was an idealistic motivation I had at the time that one could make an impact on the social justice system by having a life within the law, ... At the risk of sounding flowery, I still believe that.
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I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.
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