August Tholuck quotes
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“The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.”
-- August TholuckSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 38, 1895.
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“I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.”
-- August TholuckSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 137, 1895.
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“The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.”
-- August TholuckSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 291, 1895.
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“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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