No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
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Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?Charles Simeon
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.
Charles Simeon
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
Charles Simeon
With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.
Charles Simeon
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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