God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.Richard Cecil
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
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