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There is no cure for ossification of the heart. Oh, that miserable state, when to the jaundiced eye all good transforms itself into evil, and the very instruments of health become the poison of disease.

— Frederick William Robertson

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This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

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Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

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Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

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In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

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