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Johnny is but gone an hour or two sooner to bed as children are wont to do, and we are undressing to follow. And the more we put off the love of this present world, and all things superfluous beforehand, we shall have the less to do when we lie down.

— Robert Leighton

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How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.

God’s way of forgiving is thorough and hearty—both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His.

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Faith is an humble, self-denying grace; it makes the Christian nothing in himself, and all in God.

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Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.

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If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little, and others much.

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