Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
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''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.Alexander Maclaren
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
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Only he who can say, ''The Lord is my strength,'' can say, ''Of whom shall I be afraid''
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Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties
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