“Jesus knows that we had rather labor than suffer; and that we would rather labor. and suffer, too, than be laid aside. No man is fit to rise up and labor, until he is made willing to lie still and suffer as long as his Master pleases.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 51.

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American religious leader 1783–1827

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