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For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.

— William Mountford Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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