“Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.”

—  Alexander Maclaren

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 108.

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British minister 1826–1910

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