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It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, — to love Him, the spring of spirits.

— Robert Leighton

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How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.

God’s way of forgiving is thorough and hearty—both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His.

Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Faith is an humble, self-denying grace; it makes the Christian nothing in himself, and all in God.

Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.

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If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little, and others much.

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