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Charity is the great channel through which God passes all his mercy upon mankind.
Holy Dying (1651)
Whoever persecutes a disagreeing person, arms all the world against himself, and all pious people of his own persuasion.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
Faith, hope, and charity are the best weapons in the world to fight against intemperance.
Holy Living (1650)
No man speaks more unreasonably, then he that denies to men the use of their Reason in choice of their Religion.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
Nothing is to be esteemed evil which God and nature have fixed with eternal sanction.
Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue.
He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
Holy Living (1650)
A man must not go to law because the musician keeps false time with his foot.
Force in matters of opinion can do no good, but is very apt to do hurt.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
There is something in every act of prayer that for a time stills the violence of passion, and elevates and purifies the affections.
The first things that hinders the prayer of a good man from obtaining its effects is a violent anger, and a violent storm in the spirit him who prayers.
True Faith which leads to charity leads on to that which unites wills and affections, not opinions.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
But exhortations must prevail with their own proper weight, not by the passion of the speaker.
Holy Dying (1651)
To abstain from sin when a man cannot sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
Upon the wings of fasting and alms holy prayer infallibly mounts up to heaven.
Holy Living (1650)
The sacraments and ceremonies of the gospel operate not without the concurrent actions and moral influences of the suscipient.
Holy Dying (1651)
Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.
Holy Living (1650)