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We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

— William Morley Punshon Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

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There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; — it shall go ringing on through the ages.

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The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.

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