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We must be wise task-masters, and not require of ourselves what we can not possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

— Elizabeth Prentiss Stepping Heavenward (1869)

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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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