“Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 400.

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British writer and theologian 1816–1853

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“Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.”

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