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"I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure."
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"Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath."
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"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
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"Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I."
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"Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ."
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"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined."
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"As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples."
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"Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?"
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"As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be."
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"We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore."
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"I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?"
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"Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service."
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"About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible."
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"The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help."
Peace
"I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia."
Love
"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
Family
"By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief."
Time
"All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times."
Time
"My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me."
Heart
"My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ."
Society
"I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others."
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