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Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid to say, "I know that my Redeemer is yonder, and I know that He loves me."

— 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.

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