“They who would grow in grace, must love the habitation of God's house. It is those that are planted in the courts of the Lord who shall flourish, and not those that are occasionally there.”

—  John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 150.

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