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486 Sinners, remember this: It is not so much the sense of your unworthiness as your pride that keeps you from a blessed closing with the Saviour. —.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such astonishment as a proud man. —.

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He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place. —.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but He has not promised to-morrow to your procrastination. —.

Faith in to-morrow instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition. —.

Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God. —.

Nothing is a greater sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulance of an idle tongue.