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“The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.”

Book:An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter

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An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter

This book is a comprehensive examination of the second epistle attributed to St. Peter, offering a detailed interpretation and discussion of its contents and theological significance. more

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Thomas Adams

Thomas Adams (1818-1905) was an outstanding scientist known for his significant contributions to the field of chemistry, particularly in the development of the rubber industry. His breakthrough in rubber vulcanization technology greatly advanced the progress of the rubber industry. more

“And therefore you who think so basely of the gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort is not come, know it is on the way to them, and comes to stay everlastingly with them; whereas your peace is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends. The Spirit of God by his convictions comes into the soul with some terrors, but it closeth with peace and joy.”

Thinking Knows Way Should Looks Ends Moments Christian Peace Meditation Comfort Professors You Again

Author:William Gurnall

“Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.”

Ifs Knows Heart Made Reason Whole Seems Would Be Prayer Half Share Claims Gods Will Temptation Satan Reasonable One Half Fetch Crafty

Book:Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall

Source: Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall

“Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire.... but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan." Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.”

Ifs World Looks Christ Prayer Cry Ought Glory Devil Crosses Patterns Kingdoms Temptation Thee Satan Look Up Empires Suggestions Disputes Pondering Entrances Christ On The Cross

Author:John Owen

“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”

Ifs Firsts Next Prayer Overcoming Temptation Lions Honey Next Time Nests Trials And Temptations Samson

Author:John Bunyan

“Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.”

Long Lasts Found Grows Prayer Watches Flower Fairs Tools Wounds Temptation Sweetest Baskets Serpent Poisonous

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.”

Made Lasts Science Wish Records Reputation Observation Acquire Deceit Manipulation Ridicule Forging

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

“What is permissible is not always honorable.”

Honorable

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.”