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Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

— Frederick William Robertson

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This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

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Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

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Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

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In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

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