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DICKENS,
CHARLES
“Remember! It is Christianity TO DO GOOD always - even to those who do evil
to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbour as ourself, and to do to all
men as we would have them DO to us. It is Christianity to be gentle,
merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts,
and never make a boast of them, or of our prayers or our love of God, but
always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything.
If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us
our sins and mistakes, and enable us to live and die in peace.”
(Walder,
1981, 13)
“The
Divine teacher was as gentle and considerate as He was powerful and wise.
You all know He could still the raging of the sea, and could hush a little
child. As the utmost results of the wisdom of men can only be at last to
raise this earth to that condition to which His doctrine, untainted by the
blindnesses and passions of men
would have
exalted it long ago; so let us always remember that He has set us the
example of blending the understanding and the imagination, and that,
following it ourselves, we tread on His steps, and help our race onto its
better and best days.”
(Ibid,
175)
“Nothing is discovered without God’s intention and assistance, and I suppose
every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a
revelation by which men are to guide themselves.
(Ibid,
175)
“I
now most solemnly impress upon you the truth and beauty of the Christian
religion, as it came from Christ Himself, and the impossibility of your
going far wrong if you humbly but heartily respect it.”
(Ibid,
195)
“ I
have always striven in my writings to express veneration for the life and
lessons of Our Saviour; because I feel i t . . . But I have never made
proclamation ofthis from the house tops.”
(Ibid,
195)
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