Men are more accountable for their motives, than f... -Archibald Alexander

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

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Archibald Alexander was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian. He played a significant role in the development of Princeton Theological Seminary and served as its first professor. Alexander's influential writings and teachings helped shape American Reformed theology and had a lasting impact on religious education in the United States.

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But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a since...
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Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you...
God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner....
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his...
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportuni...
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, ...
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall m...

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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me....
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