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Mary Lyon Quote

“In heaven, we shall never regret any sacrifice however painful, or labor however protracted, made or performed here for the cause of Christ.”

— Mary Lyon

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There is nothing in the universe I fear but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

— Mary Lyon

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Under the banner of the Saviour's dying love, I feel it to be the most precious privilege in the universe to deny myself, to take up my cross, and to follow the Lord whithersoever He goeth.

— Mary Lyon

Love

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When I am about my work, sometimes called unexpectedly and suddenly from one thing to another, I whisper in my heart, "Lord, help me to be patient, help me to remember, and help me to be faithful. Lord, enable me to do all for Christ's sake, and to go forward, leaning on the bosom of His infinite grace."

— Mary Lyon

Love

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Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

— Alexander Maclaren

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Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

— G. D. Boardman

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What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline, under the grace of Christ or the absence of it.

— H. P. Liddon

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