"If, in proportion as our minds are enlarged, our hearts purified, and our consciences cultivated, our abhorrence of wrong and aversion to it increases, what must be the moral indignation of the infinite and holy God against wrong-doers?"
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Edward Thompson, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 552.
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