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I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.

— Edward Payson Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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"Not for ourselves, but for others," is the grand law inscribed on every part of creation.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The most of my sufferings and sorrows were occasioned by my own unwillingness to be nothing, which I am, and by struggling to be something.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

God's will is the very perfection of all reason.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I think that if we would, every evening, come to our Master's feet, and tell Him where we have been, what we have done, what we have said, and what were the motives by which we have been actuated, it would have a salutary effect upon our whole conduct.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Jesus knows that we had rather labor than suffer; and that we would rather labor.and suffer, too, than be laid aside. No man is fit to rise up and labor, until he is made willing to lie still and suffer as long as his Master pleases.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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