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The Church in England is the Church of England.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.