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“If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.”
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“I owe it all to Jesus.”
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“To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.
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“The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers
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“Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.”
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“Could man be drunk for ever    With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning    And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober    And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten    Their hands upon their hearts.”
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“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”
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“With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.”
Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54
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“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”
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“To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...”
