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Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a hard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

— Alexander Maclaren

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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.

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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.

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