"This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime"

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The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dews in one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection.

— Thomas De Witt Talmage