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He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!

— James Freeman Clarke Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows."

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

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Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we f1nd new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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