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However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever.

— Horace Bushnell Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

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Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

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A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

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