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"It does not matter how long it takes. God will fulfil the promises."

"Was it a doubt - a fear - a wandering uncertainty seeking rest, but finding none - so tear-blinded were its eyes - Mr. Thornton, instead of being shocked, seemed to have through that very stage of thought himself, and could suggest where the exact ray of light was to be found, which should make the dark places plain. Man of action as he was, busy in the world's great battle, there was a deeper religion binding him to God in his heart, in spite of his strong willfulness, through all his mistakes, than Mr. Hale ever dreamed."

"Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart."

"You must know your part in the body of Christ and play it."

"I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words."
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"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."

"Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds."

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."

"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."

"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."
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