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If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world; at least, we should be better enabled to bear them. - [Prayer] Leanness of body and soul may go together. - [Fasting] 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. - [Temptation] 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. - [Grace] We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works. - [Faith] To the sick man, the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, and a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel." [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei. Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem, "En Deus aut custos angelus," aeger ait.] - Works (The Physician) [Doctors : Forgetfulness] The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh. - Works (vol. VI, 9) [Sin]
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