“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?' asked Uncle Tom, with his last breath. 'Massa George sat fixed with solemn awe,' says Mrs. Beecher Stowe, in continuing the story. 'It seemed to him that the place was holy; and as he closed Tom's lifeless eyes, and rose to leave the dead, only one thought possessed him--What a thing it is to be a Christian!' It is indeed!”
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
“She wondered if forgiveness was more like peeling an onion than breaking an egg. That had been top-layer forgiveness. This would be deep forgiveness, boring down to the bedrock, to the taproot, to the core of who she was and what Daniel had done.”
― If I Gained the World
― If I Gained the World
“When Elizabeth came to the English throne, a number of men and women, who were awaiting martyrdom under Mary, were liberated. Animated by the spirit of Ridley and Latimer, they would have kissed the faggots and embraced the stake. Yet, in the years that followed, some of them lapsed into indifference, went the way of the world, and named the name of Christ no more. The ordeal of life proved more potent and more”
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
“terrible than the ordeal of a fiery death.”
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
“Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are.”
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
Feel soft as downy pillows are.”
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
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