“One of the best things in the gospel of Jesus is the stress it lays on small things. It ascribes more value to quality than to quantity; it teaches that God does not ask how much we do, but how we do it.”

—  James Freeman Clarke

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 387.

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American theologian and writer 1810–1888

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