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The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

— Alexander Maclaren

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Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God.

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

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The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

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If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

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Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

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God never gave a man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

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