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True heroism is alike positive and progressive. It sees in right the duty which should dominate, and in truth the principle which should prevail. And hence it never falters in the faith that always and everywhere sin must be repressed, and righteousness exalted.

— John McClellan Holmes Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Christ's gospel could never have been delivered by one who was diseased.

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The only satisfactory manifestations of religious character and life are associated with the reciprocal influences of spiritual experience and aggressive activity.

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The tree of human history, as it has grown from age to age, has been but the unfolding of a single germ — but the development of Christ and Him crucified.

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Religion, as embodied in the character and conduct of its disciples, cannot survive without doctrinal purity. In the absence of this element, religious feeling inevitably decays; while even religious necessity becomes a thing of naught.

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Let us not undervalue the dignity of human nature. Man. although fallen, still retains some traces of his primeval glory and excellence — broken columns of a celestial temple, magnificent, even in its ruins.

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