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I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

— Elizabeth Prentiss The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882)

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No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

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Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

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It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

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The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

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It is a religion of principle that God wants from us, not one of mere feeling.

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