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Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

— Rowland Hill

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We can do more good by being good than in any other way.

Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.

I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.

I like ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before the devil can get a shot at it.

Conformity to the world has in all ages proved the ruin of the church. It is utterly impossible to live in nearness to God, and in friendship with the world.

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