The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!

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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

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To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

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The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

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