“Let us, therefore, not live in the summer‑house of emotion, but in the central citadel of the will, wholly yielded and devoted to the will of God.”

— Frederick Brotherton Meyer

The Secret of Guidance (1896)

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English Baptist pastor and evangelist 1847–1929

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