![[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.](/assets/img/quote-photos/responding-to-trick-query-about-whether-she-believed-herself-in-a-state-of-grace.jpg)
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wisdom expectations looks
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Charles Dickens
wisdom knowledge literature
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness.
wisdom next profit
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
wisdom perfection
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
wisdom character
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom ifs
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
wisdom age next
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Charles Simmons
grace imitation facility
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
grace sovereign sin
Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it. Charles Spurgeon
grace salvation ends
There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.
grace promise given
God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
grace holiness saint
The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
grace guilt debt
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. Aiden Wilson Tozer
grace world sin
Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
grace benefits pleasure
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.
grace needs thirsty
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.
may oppression begets
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
may maintaining conquer
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
may riches talent
From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
may cups bliss
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
may venture able
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.
may modern poet
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
may finals tomorrow
To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.
may certain made
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.