“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
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“If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!”
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“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”
― A Call to Prayer
― A Call to Prayer
“Hell is truth known too late.”
― Practical Religion
― Practical Religion
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