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Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others.

— Thomas Brooks Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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If any prayer be a duty, then secret prayer must be superlatively so, for it prepares and fits the soul for all other supplication.

"Continuing instant in prayer." The Greek is a metaphor taken from hunting dogs that never give over the game till they have got their prey.

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Though the scorpion be little, yet will it sting a lion to death; and so will the least sin the sinner, unless pardoned by the blood of Christ.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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