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| Re: | | "Humility alone unites patience with love; without which it is impossible to draw profit from suffering; or indeed, to avoid complaint, especially when we think we have given no occasion for what men make us suffer.
-John Wesley
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2006/6/7 14:25 | Profile |
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| Re: | | "Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
-John Wesley
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| Re: | | " There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit. -John Wesley
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2006/6/7 14:26 | Profile |
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| Re: | | "To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and to follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem, where he was born; naked to the hall where he was scourged; and naked to Calvary, where he died on the cross, is so great a mercy, that neither the thing, nor the knowledge of it is given to any, but through faith in the Son of God.
-John Wesley
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| Re: | | "We are to bear with those we cannot amend, and to be content with offering them to God. This is true resignation. And since He has borne our infirmities, we may well bear those of each other for His sake.
-John Wesley
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2006/6/7 14:26 | Profile |
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| Re: | | "We ought quietly to suffer whatever befals us, to bear the defects of others and our own, to confess them to God in secret prayer, or with groans which cannot be uttered; but never to speak a sharp or peevish word, nor to murmur or repine; but thoroughly willing that God should treat you in the manner that pleases him. We are his lambs, and therefore ought to be ready to suffer, even to the death, without complaining.
-John Wesley
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2006/6/7 14:27 | Profile |
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| Re: | | "In the greatest afflictions which can befal the just, either from heaven or earth, they remain immovable in peace, and perfectly submissive to God, by an inward, loving regard to Him, uniting in one all the powers of their souls.
-John Wesley
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2006/6/13 18:49 | Profile |
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| Re: | | " True resignation consists in a thorough conformity to the whole will of God; who wills and does all (excepting sin) which comes to pass in the world. In order to this we have only to embrace all events, good and bad, as His will.
-John Wesley
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2006/6/13 18:50 | Profile |
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| Re: | | "The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in the world.
-John Wesley
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2006/6/13 18:50 | Profile |
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| Re: | | "Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love. -John Wesley
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