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Ability
Ability: Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particie is duty.
Accountability
Accountability: Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their…
Action
Action: The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
Adoption
Adoption: Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the…
Adversity
Adversity: God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is…
Affliction
Affliction: Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings.
Ambition
Ambition: Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Amusement
Amusement: Amusements are to religion like breezes of air to the flame; gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out.
Anger
Anger: An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
Apostasy
Apostasy: The kiss of the apostate was the most bitter earthly ingredient in the agonies which Christ endured.
Aspiration
Aspiration: O God, Thou art my God; early will I seek Thee; my soul thirsteth for Thee; my flesh longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty…
Assurance
Assurance: Assurance of hope is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.
Atheism
Atheism: The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite.
Avarice
Avarice: It is impossible to conceive any contrast more entire and absolute than that which exists between a heart glowing with love to…