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41 " A carnal person can no more value spiritual blessings than a baby can value a diamond necklace. "
― Thomas Watson , All Things for Good
42 " Conscience is God’s diocese, where none has right to visit, but He who is the Bishop of our souls (1 Peter 2:25 "
43 " Christ’s prayer takes away the sins of our prayers. As a child, says Ambrose, that is willing to present his father with a posy, goes into the garden, and there gathers some flowers and some weeds together, but coming to his mother, she picks out the weeds and binds the flowers, and so it is presented to the father: thus when we have put up our prayers, Christ comes, and picks away the weeds, the sin of our prayer, and presents nothing but flowers to His Father, which are a sweet-smelling savour. 8. "