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The object of preaching is, constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions; to recall mankind from the by-paths where they turn, into that broad path of salvation which all know, but few tread.
Sydney Smith, p. 476. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)) | ||