"The reason why those who are converted to Christ often make so poor a work of rectifying their old habits, is that they lay down their work in the very places where it needs to be prosecuted most carefully, that is, in their common employments. They do not live to God in that which is least."
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Horace Bushnell
Horace Bushnell (14 April 1802 – 17 February 1876) was an American Congregational clergyman and theologian.
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