“Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.”

—  Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 84.

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