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Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend — who will stand firm when others fail — the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous; in such an one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages — a sign that there has been a prophet amongst us.

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

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