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“Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence.”

— John Wesley

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If we take away this foundation, that man is by nature foolish and sinful, fallen short of the glorious image of God, the Christian system falls at once ; nor will it deserve as honorable an appellation as that of a cunningly devised fable.

— John Wesley

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Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

— John Wesley

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Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

— Alexander Maclaren

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Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

— G. D. Boardman

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What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline, under the grace of Christ or the absence of it.

— H. P. Liddon

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Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

— Emmons

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