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The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
Alexander MacLaren
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In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
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