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Who ever heard of a devout deist? Who ever heard of one who was willing to spend his life in missionary labor for the good of others? It is not according to the constitution of the mind that such a system should awaken the affections. And what is true of this system is true of every false system. All such systems leave the heart cold, and, accordingly, exert very little genuine,transforming power over the life.

— Mark Hopkins Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

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Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

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Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

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The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

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