Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 58.
“He who thinks he hath no need of Christ, hath too high thoughts of himself. He who thinks Christ cannot help him, hath too low thoughts of Christ.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 86.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 106.

2:1-10 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2&version=KJV;SBLGNT (KJV)
Epistle to the Ephesians
Context: And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 28
Variant: Each kind compassion that man hath on his even-Christians with charity, it is Christ in him.

“He was dispos'd to mirth; but on the sudden
A Roman thought hath struck him.”
As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act I, (1623)

“Thus I saw how Christ hath compassion on us for the cause of sin.”
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 28

Source: The Autobiography, P. 34

December 26, 1839
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)