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Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God.

— Alexander Maclaren

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The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

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The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

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If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

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Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

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