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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
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