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"To see God by faith in prayer will cause our words to be few. Our distance from him, and losing sight of him, is what makes us talkative."

- Thomas Charles of Bala

"The holiness of a regenerate person, he would insist, 'seems principally to consist in self-abasement, and in admiring views of Jesus as a complete Saviour'."

After trudging through some kind of swampy sermons, coming to Archibald Alexander is a step out of the woods into sunlight.🤩

Another M.J. Gray on Librivox, it'll be good

"Let us learn to be free and to be loyal."

"The prophets long for shalom. Hearing the voice of God in their souls, they assure people that God's kingdom of peace will come one day, and that a particular figure, weighty with centuries of longing and promise, will bring it near."

I almost want to copy out his whole chapter on Redemption.

"Glorious the northern lights astream;
Glorious the song when God's the theme;
Glorious the thunder's roar"

- favorite line from Christopher Smart's (rather bizarre) 'Song to David'

"...which the natural man discerns nothing of, and has no manner of idea of (agreeable to 1 Cor. 2:14), and conceives of no more than a man without the sense of tasting can conceive of the
sweet taste of honey, or a man without the sense of hearing can conceive of the melody of a tune, or a man born blind can have a notion of the beauty of the rainbow."

"More education won't fix what's wrong with education. Nor will any other merely human corrective. Such fixes are tainted with the same corruption that needs fixing. That's the bad
news. The good news is that God has addressed human corruption from outside the system, and it is on this gracious initiative that Christian hope centers."

"I must watch now. I must watch always. There is no such thing as a spiritual vacation."

"That is one of the dangers that always confronts us - the danger of turning this wondrous faith into a mere collection of optimistic ideas, a mere source of good cheer- that might be equally well provided by a host of other things."

"According to God's intelligence, the way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself."

That one had to keep "a good heart,' come what may, was Abigail's lifelong creed. "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine,' she loved to say, quoting Proverbs. "I hate to complain,'' she now wrote. ""No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows
best where their own shoe pinches."

"...Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air."

"...Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind."

It's not cliche, it's Gray's 'Elegy'. Pretty sure he's as English as the King James Bible and Shakespeare.

"He was not so concerned about a President staying long in office, Adams said, as he was about too frequent elections, which often brought out the worst in people and increased the chances of foreign influence."

Librivox reader with Australian accent - let's do this

"The world will always favour belief that does not see man as a sinner dependent upon divine grace."

"The more excellent the nature of any benefit is, which we stand in need of, the more ready God is to bestow it, in answer to prayer."

"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket." - J.A.

"The man who has any conceivable alternative to Christ is not a Christian."

"Let us have ambition enough to keep our simplicity, our frugality, our integrity, and transmit these virtues as the fairest of inheritance to our children."

"One day we shall see him as he is, and I fear that only then will we realize what our salvation has cost him. When we shall look into his blessed face, when we see the imprint of the nails in his hands and feet, we shall feel a sense of shame for all our slackness."

Dryden is rather ridiculous. I cannot love him.