| "If we so hate to let go of the life that is accompanied with so many troubles, what is our feeling for the life above?" (262) "if you love life, prepare yourselves, for the Robbers are ahead of you!" (337) "...in Jesus Christ there is more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of." (262) "...instead of cleaning the sinful heart by its works, the law actually energizes, puts strength into, and increases sin in the soul. Even though it reveals and condemns sin, it doesn't have the power to conquer it." (38) "It's my duty...to distrust my own ability so I might rely on Him who is stronger than all." (321) "It's not always necessary to grant things not asked for...lest by doing so, they become of little value. But when the desire of a thing is felt, it then comes to be valued properly as it is worth in the eyes of the person who feels it, and who will consequently thereafter use it." (253) "I've been commanded to resist sin, to overcome evil, and to fight the good fight of faith." (369) "I've heard him plead for it, quote Scripture for it, and bring arguments for it," stated Mr. Honest. "It's an opinion that's not fit to be allowed in the world in any way," said Great Heart. (332) "I've seen some who seemed not to be the least bit promising when they first set out to be Pilgrims, and who one wouldn't think could've lived a day, which yet proved to be very good Pilgrims. I've seen some who've run hastily forward, and who after a little time have run just as fast back again." (334) "Let nothing on this side of the Other World get inside of you, and above all, pay close attention to your own hearts and to the desires of it, for they're more deceitful than anything and desperately wicked. Set your faces like stone. You have all power in Heaven and earth on your side." (112-3) "...no man can know Jesus Christ except through the revelation of the Father. Yes, and also faith--by which the soul lays hold upon Christ, if it be right--must be wrought by the exceeding greatness of His Mighty Power" (194) "...no man has been able to easily shake off the things with which he was oppressed." (330) |
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