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William Adams was Fellow and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. Explore interesting quotes on use.

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“What do we know about the world unseen? What reasonings, what curiosity, what misgivings there have been concerning that impenetrable mystery! Out of this mystery and vagueness and vastness comes the human form of the Divine Redeemer. He assures us that there is an unmixed and endless life, and that all we have to do to secure it is, to trust ourselves to Him who came to declare it and to confer it.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 91.

“Do you ask why Mary Magdalene was the one chosen to whom first of all Christ should show Himself after the resurrection? This we know — she trusted in Him, and she loved Him; she waited at His sepulchre; she sought, she looked, she wept; and if we would have Christ reveal Himself to us, we, too, must seek and wait and long and trust and love.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.

“Eternal life does not depend upon our perfection; but because it does depend upon the grace of Christ and the love of the Spirit, that love shall prompt us to emulate perfection.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.

“To-day Christ, in a certain sense, is on trial before us all. In these living hearts, in every one to-day, there will be a judgment of some sort passed upon His sacred person.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 102.