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O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, — these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them.

— 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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It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

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