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The man that wrapped up his talent in the napkin and said, "Lo, there thou hast that is thine," was too sanguine. There was never an unused talent rolled up in a handkerchief yet, but when it was taken out and put into the scales, it was lighter than when it was committed to the keeping of the earth.

— Alexander Maclaren

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The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

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