We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
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Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
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Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
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Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
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