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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. "
Happiness
God
Believe
" Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. "
Become
Something
Time
" Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. "
Intent
Brainy
Day
" 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. "
Life Is A
More
Life
" 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. "
Nature
Us
Desire
" God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. "
Different
Men
Virtue
" Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. "
Nothing
Divine
Hell
" He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. "
Happy Life
Pray
Secret
" Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves. "
Nothing
Right
Judgment
" If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. "
Difference
You
Will
" Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. "
God
Wish
World
" Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love. "
Errors
Want
Love
" 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. "
Great
Women
Humble
" Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. "
Own
God
Will
" 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. "
Life
State
Religious
" Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. "
Tree
Branches
Fallen
" This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. "
Life
World
Alone
" We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. "
Pray
Way
Hearts
" What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? "
Fly
Man
Night
" What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? "
Different
Man
Self
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