“We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.”

—  William Morley Punshon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 47.

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English Nonconformist minister 1824–1881

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