Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
way ready unprepared
Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
prayer hinder consolation
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
jesus life-and-death helping
Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.
doe
He does much who loves much.
giving sensual desire
Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him.
reading writing laziness
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
said notes has-beens
Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.
order temptation secret
No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.
character honor height
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
faith cutting anxiety
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
grace able persons
To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
scary
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
men
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
morning night deeds
In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.