This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
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Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
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Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
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Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
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So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
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But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.
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There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
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Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
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