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It is only religion, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable. Without this, to live were only to graze.… Without this, the beauties of the world are but splendid gewgaws, the stars of heaven glittering orbs of ice, and, what is yet far worse and colder, the trials of existence profitless and unadulterated miseries.

— Horace Bushnell

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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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Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

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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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