If I were to live to the world's end, and do all the good that man can do, I must still cry, "Mercy!" Why then should I be unwilling or afraid to die this moment, with a sense of God's pardoning love, when I can have no other claim to salvation if I were to live forever?
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“The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.”
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