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An undivided heart, which worships God alone, and trusts Him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.

— John Cunningham Geikie Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choice
of good or evil we have made through life.

Poor shepherdless sheep! it was His delight, as the Good Shepherd, to lead them to rich pastures; and as they sat and stood around Him, they forgot their bodily wants in the beauty and power of His words.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

But now, the sounds of infancy, always nearest the heart, and sure to come to the lips in our deepest emotion, returned in His anguish; and in words which He had learned at His mother's knee, His heart uttered its last wail — "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" "My God! My God! why hast Thou forsaken me?"

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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