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There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, " My God, my God!"

— 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.

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

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

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

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

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