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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 59.

 

Phillips Brooks

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