The whole effort—the object—of temptation is to induce us to substitute something else for God. To obscure God.
R. H. J. Steuart
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 13:34
The King James Version
He that hopes hereafter to look back with satisfaction upon past years, must learn to know the present value of single minutes.
Samuel Johnson
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Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.
Søren Kierkegaard
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives.
Proverbs 27:21
The New International Version
Just as a hand held before the eyes conceals the greatest mountain, so does petty earthly life conceal from view the vast lights and mysteries of which the world is full.
Nachman of Breslov
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True and living devotion presupposes the love of God.
Francis de Sales
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Romans 6:22
The King James Version
There is only one time that is important—NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
Leo Tolstoy
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Thoughts invite us, more than words and deeds, to continue in sin, for thoughts can be concealed, while words and deeds cannot.
Sören Kierkegaard
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.
Isaiah 40:8
The New American Standard Version
He who helps a child helps humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creatures in any other stage of their life can possibly give again.
Phillips Brooks
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Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.
Augustine
And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil.
Ephesians 4:26-27
The New Living Translation
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Sin is not exhausted in describing individual acts which aren’t very nice. “Sin” is fundamentally a description of our entire situation, one of separation from God, alienation from him, arising out of our rebellion, our refusal to do his will, our insistence upon following our own wills.
John Stott
And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
2 John 1:6
The New International Version
Lord, the Scripture says: “There is a time for silence and a time for speech.” Saviour, teach me the silence of humility, the silence of wisdom, the silence of love, the silence of perfection, the silence that speaks without words, the silence of faith. Lord, teach me to silence my own heart that I may listen to the gentle movement of the Holy Spirit within me and sense the depths which are of God.
Frankfurt prayer (Sixteenth century)
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The greatest of all sins is the philosophizing of sin out of existence.
Harold C. Gardiner
Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold.
Proverbs 3:13-14
The New King James Version
When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.
Unknown
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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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O God, though our sins be seven, though our sins be seventy times seven, though our sins be more in number than the hairs of our head, yet give us grace in loving penitence to cast ourselves down into the depths of Thy compassion.
Christina Rossetti
Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD! Lift up your hands to the holy place, and bless the LORD! May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth!
Psalm 134
The Revised Standard Version
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Teresa
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Grant O Lord, that we may live in Thy fear, die in Thy favor, rest in Thy peace, rise in Thy power, reign in Thy glory.
William Laud
A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
Proverbs 19:11
The New International Version
A sin is two sins when it is defended.
Henry Smith
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