“An undivided heart, which worships God alone, and trusts Him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.”

— John Cunningham Geikie

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 601.

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Scottish Presbyterian minister and author 1824–1906

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