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Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

Alexander MacLaren

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The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God and to an innumerable company.
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All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our hope, our portion, and our joy. Oh, brethren, if you would know the meaning of the world, read Christ in it. If you would see the beauty of earth, take it for a prophet of something higher than itself.
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The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
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Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
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There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
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Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong and the epitaph for the sinner is, Thou fool!
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Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.
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We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.
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Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him.
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The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.
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True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, I will not be afraid it is wisdom and peace to say, I will trust and not be afraid.
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Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .
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