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"Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day."
"He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other."
"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
"To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you."
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"The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh."
"Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you."
"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend."
"The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace."
"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."
"All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit."
"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim."
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