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Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

— Samuel Rutherford Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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How soon would faith freeze without a cross!

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Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.

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Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

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Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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