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"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."
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"With great diligent, pursue your dreams."

"God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners."

"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."

"A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness."

"Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power."

"The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23"
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"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me."

"There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture."

"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."

"Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation."

"One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct."
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