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“Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them today, the children of our Sunday-schools, of our churches, of the streets. Here they are; they wait Thy benediction. The prayer of Jacob for his sons shall be my prayer while I live, and when I die: The angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 571), 1895.
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“I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.”
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“If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.”
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“The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality. Of course there can be vain, self-seeking loving, but to go (sometimes literally) out of our way to help animals, to expend effort to secure their protection and to feel with them their suffering and to be moved by it-these are surely signs of spiritual greatness.”
Source : Andrew Linzey (2016). “Christianity and the Rights of Animals”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest, apostle of love. Thy love, forever, eternal, that my faith may become as complete, as flaming and tranquil, as his, and pierce as deep and speak as simply in the spirit.”
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“I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.”
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“Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.”
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“An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.”
