“Whether a matter is great or small, its importance and weight depend on whose hands it is in.”
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Character, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 978-0-87083-322-9
“That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”
By the Fireside, xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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