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What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.

— William Mountford Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

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The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

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God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

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Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.

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