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Our murmuring is the devil's music.
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.
Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.
None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.
The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.
The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.
It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.
There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.
Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.
Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.
If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.
God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.
It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.
Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.
Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?
Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.
This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.
There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.
Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.
A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.