Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.

Richard Cecil's Popular Quotes

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

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Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

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Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as pos…

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It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

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The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

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Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

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