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I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them — with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

— Frederick William Robertson Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

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