Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
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Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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