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Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. This is the damning hypocrisy of this age; that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it.

— Richard Fuller

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Any pleasure which takes and keeps the heart from God is sinful, and unless forsaken, will be fatal to the soul.

Christians are called saints, for their holiness; believers, for their faith; brethern, for their love; disciples, for their knowledge.

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Men and brethren, a simple trust in God is the most essential ingredient in moral sublimity of character.

Count not that thou hast lived that day, in which thou hast not lived with God.

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O, for a living faith in a living Redeemer!

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