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Not Talent but Likeness
Leading the Way by Paul Borthwick, Navpress, 1989, p. 65
Not Talent but Likeness
Leading the Way by Paul Borthwick, Navpress, 1989, p. 65
Robert Murray McCheyne wrote to Dan Edwards after the latter's ordination as a missionary, "In great measure, according to the purity and perfections of the instrument, will be the success. It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God" (emphasis mine).
