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Let a man begin in earnest with, "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with, "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.

— Frederick William Robertson

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This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

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Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

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Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

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In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

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