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The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer QUOTES

1 " Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns. "

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2 " He who puts on a religious demeanor abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be unmasked by God, and presented before all the world for a most detestable hypocrite. "

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3 " Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concernments. "

― , The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer

4 " The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc. "

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5 " Had many men spent but half that time in secret prayer, that they have spent in seeking after the philosopher’s stone, how happy might they have been! "

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6 " Heliogabalus loved his children the better for resembling him in sin. But Christ loves his children the more for resembling him in sanctity. I have read of some springs that change the colour of the cattle that drink of them into the colour of their own waters, as Du Bartas sings: "Cerona, Xanth, and Cephisus do make The thirsty flocks, that of their waters take, Black, red, and white; and near the crimson deep, The Arabian fountain maketh crimson sheep. "

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7 " The sluggish Christian will be sleeping, or idling, or trifling, when he should be in his closet a-praying. Sloth is the green-sickness of the soul; get it cured, or it will be your eternal bane. Of all devils, it is the idle devil that keeps men most out of their closets. There is nothing that gives the devil so much advantage against us as idleness. "

― , The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer