“Thank God! some lights never go out. Death cannot quench them. They shine forever. Luther's great lantern, " The just shall live by faith," still gleams from Wartburg Castle. John Bunyan's lamp twinkles yet through the gratings of Bedford jail.”

—  Theodore L. Cuyler

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 351.

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