The Alchemy

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R  eligion is not confined to devotional exercises, but rather consists in doing all we are called to do with a single eye to God’s glory and will, from a grateful sense of his love and mercy to us.
This is the alchemy which turns everything into gold.
– Newton to Wilberforce

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