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Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.

— Alexander Maclaren Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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