“Jesus aimed to impregnate the natural with the spiritual, and to resolve all our avocations into a heavenly discipline.”

—  Thomas March Clark

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 368.

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