“How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it — that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 147.

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