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The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

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Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

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It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

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Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.

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