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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

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A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

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When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.

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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

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For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

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When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Theologian

Born: December 5th, 1907

Died: January 24th, 1978

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