Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?
"Charles Simeon", was an England/English evangelicalism/evangelical clergyman.
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You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.
No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
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