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HOLINESS.
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Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.


I make it my constant prayer that God would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion; without a humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.


How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!


A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

South.

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.


God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.


Harbor no thought, neither do any act you would be unwilling the whole world should know.


Must it come through trial—is suffering the only way in which holiness can be reached?