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• This is the strength which we should seek, and which I ask you to make the conscious aim of your lives II. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• If they are the men we seek, they're sharp as foxes, so we'll have to step like the painter Bertram looked up quickly at the last word; then he smiled the next moment, as he remembered that the panther was thus styled by trappers Proceeding cautiously forward in single file, they at length gained a spot beyond which they could not advance without running the risk of being discovered. —  The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
• For the day was growing old and it was almost bed-time Presently the stars stole out and began to play at hide and seek, and Betty who had finished counting her money again, was still standing tiredly on one foot at the corner of Market and George Streets, waiting for John--John who had promised to be with her at six; and now it was after seven and he had not come The tears were too near for her to attempt to wile away the minutes with another song--tears of weariness and disappointment. —  An Australian Lassie
• The Son of Man came to seek, and to save the lost: and when John's disciples asked Him for evidence that He was Christ, His reply was simply this: Go tell your master the things which ye have seen and heard; "the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached unto them." —  The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866
• The reason for this is not far to seek, and is one that throws light also on the motive with which the patristic writers made use of these arguments In Alexandria and the East there was no incentive for the Christians to try to prove the existence of God, for the philosophy of that portion of the world was essentially religious in its character, and based its speculation on the existence of God as a fundamental postulate of revelation and of reason as well. —  The Basis of Early Christian Theism

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