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" We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it. "

Charles Spurgeon

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" If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith. "

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" If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. "

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" Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon! "

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" You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord. "

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" We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind. "

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" None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. "

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" I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. "

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" The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus. "

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" I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams. "

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" After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. "

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" How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go! "

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" Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another. "

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" You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter. "

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" My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another. "

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" Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback. "

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" Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. "

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" The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light. "

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" Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. "

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" I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman. "

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" My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved. "

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" We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working. "

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" There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days. "

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" Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight. "

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" A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy. "

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" Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past. "

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" Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. "

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" I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion. "

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" Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity. "

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" Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called. "

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" It is not well to make great changes in old age. "

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