When God punishes sinners, He does not inflict His evil on them, but leaves them to their own evil.
Augustine
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 John 5:14
The English Standard Version
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Love God, serve God; everything is in that.
Clare of Assisi
Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you. And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
1 Thessalonians 3:11-13
The New Revised Standard Version
Salvation is not putting a man into Heaven, but putting Heaven into man.
Maltbie D. Babcock
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Some folk who would be horrified to think themselves saintly live in an almost continuous consciousness of God.
John W. Lynch
“I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, declares the Lord.”
Jeremiah 31:13-14
The English Standard Version
All this and heaven too.
Matthew Henry
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There is no Christian truth so clearly revealed as this, that the spirit of every Christian must be a spirit of sacrifice.
P. A. Sheehan
Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who have pleasure in them. Full of honor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures for ever.
Psalm 111:2-3
The Revised Standard Version
Blessedness lieth not in much and many, but in one and oneness.
Theologia Germanica, 14th century
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Great is the conduct of a man who lets rewards take care of themselves come if they will or fail to come—but goes on his way, true to the truth simply because it is true, strongly loyal to the right for its pure righteousness.
Phillips Brooks
“First seek the counsel of the LORD.”
1 Kings 22:5
The New International Version
Death is not a dead end but a fork in the road.
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Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
Thomas Fuller
The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry. The face of the Lord is against evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the earth. The righteous cry and the Lord hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, And saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:15-18
The New American Standard Bible
To pray is nothing more involved than to lie in the sunshine of God’s grace.
Ole Hallesby
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Repentance is not self-regarding, but God-regarding. It is not self-loathing, but God-loving.
Fulton J. Sheen
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 13:52
The New International Version
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to Church, may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither.
C. S. Lewis
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There is no temper of the soul more antithetic to New Testament religion than that which plays for safety.
A. Victor Murray
Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.
2 Timothy 2:22
The New Living Translation
God’s in His Heaven—All’s right with the world.
Robert Browning
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This is our highest reward that we should fully enjoy God, and that all who enjoy Him should enjoy one another in Him.
Augustine
There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24
The Revised Standard Version
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest scrap of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, said they, the name of God may be on it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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God permits the wicked, but not forever.
Thomas Fuller
For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
Hebrews 2:18
The New King James Version
The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
Norman Vincent Peale
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