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You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings towards Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just so far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it, you love Him.

— Elizabeth Prentiss Stepping Heavenward (1869)

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No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

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Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

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It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

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The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

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It is a religion of principle that God wants from us, not one of mere feeling.

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