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God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels; and those He especially loves and means to make the most resplendent, He hath oftenest His tools upon.

— Robert Leighton Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.

God’s way of forgiving is thorough and hearty—both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His.

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Faith is an humble, self-denying grace; it makes the Christian nothing in himself, and all in God.

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Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.

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If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little, and others much.

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