We have a large class of poor creatures, who, while not discontent with others, are discontent with themselves. They are not what they like to be, and they are not what they wish to be, and they don't feel as they should feel, and they don't think as they would like to think. They are always plunging their finger into their own eyes, because they cannot see as well as they wish, always ripping up the wounds they have, making themselves miserable in order that they may be happy, and at last, crying themselves into an inconsolable state of misery, they acquire a habit of mourning, until that mourning seems to be the only bliss they know.
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We cling with dreadful tenacity to this poor life, and the little pleasures which we foolishly call our all.
Permalink to quote #93 What we mean by salvation is this-deliverance from the love of sin, rescue from the habit of sin, setting free from the desire to sin.
Permalink to quote #95 We are not what we ought to be, we are not what we want to be, we are not what we shall be. But we are something very different from what we used to be.
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