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    Watchman Nee
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    The Lord longs to find a way to bless the world through those who belong to Him. Brokenness is the way of blessing, the way of fragrance, the way of fruitfulness, but it is also a path sprinkled with ...

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    Chinese Proverb
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    A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

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    J. R. Miller
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    Prayers when they reach heaven become fragrant roses, pouring out their holy perfume before God. As from gardens of flowers blooming on the earth, fragrance rises, sweetening all the air, so from home...

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    Helen Keller
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    Isaiah 61:3, Psalm 45:8, Philippians 4:8, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Ephesians 5:2, Proverbs 27:9
    Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

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    Jonathan Edwards
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    Every saint in heaven is as a flower in the garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. Every sou...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Matthew 13:13, Matthew 13:1-23, Isaiah 6:9-10, Isaiah 6:9-10, John 9:39-41, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 1:18
    You called, shouted, broke through my deafness; you flared, blazed, banished my blindness; you lavished your fragrance, I gasped; and now I pant for you; I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst; you...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 9:2, Luke 1:78-79, John 1:5
    In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is far off in the deeps of it somewhere a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to lis...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! Lo, you were within, but I outside, seeking there for you, and upon the shapely things you have made I rushed headlong, I, m...

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    Matthew Henry
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    Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humil...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the...

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    Jean Sulivan
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    The Gospel is not made to dominate the world. It's the grain of sand that upsets the world's machinery. One can't inhale its fragrance and be content to leave everything the way it is. &qu...

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    Anne F. Elvey
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    Smell — as the matter emitted from a thing, its being sensed, and the sensory communion of smelling—links self and other, in such a way that the fragrant or odorous other gives of its essence and is t...

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    Ambrosiaster
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    2 Corinthians 2:14-15, Ephesians 5:2, Psalm 34:8, Mark 14:3-9, Colossians 1:15, Hebrews 1:3
    The aroma of the knowledge of God comes from Christ and through Christ. The reason why Paul said “aroma” was this: Some things are recognized by their smell, even though they are invisible. God, who i...

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    Gregory the Great
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    And we, as often as we hear anything of good people, draw in as it were through our nostrils a breath of sweetness. And when Paul the Apostle said, “We are a good odor of Christ unto God,” it is plain...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    They are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

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    Origen of Alexandria
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    Put an altar of incense in your innermost heart. Be a sweet aroma of Christ.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    John 6:35, Psalm 27:4, John 4:1-26, Luke 10:38-42, Psalm 139:13-14, Ephesians 3:17-19, Psalm 63:1-4
    What is it then that I love when I love you? Not bodily beauty, and not temporal glory, not the clear shining light, lovely as it is to our eyes, not the sweet melodies of many-moded songs, nor the so...

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    Lisa Sharon Harper
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    Shalom is what the kingdom of God smells like.

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    Dallas Willard
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    Titus 2:10, Matthew 5:16, Proverbs 3:3-4, 1 Peter 3:4, Galatians 5:22-23
    [Beauty] “is goodness made manifest to the senses.

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    Ambrose of Milan
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    Christ is the flower of Mary, who sprouted forth from a virginal womb to spread the good odor of faith throughout the whole world, as he himself said: “I am the flower of the field, and the lily of th...

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    John Calvin
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    We ought to attend, first of all, to the metaphor in the verb smell, which means that Christ will be so shrewd that he will not need to learn from what he hears, or from what he sees; for by smelling ...

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    James H. Aughey
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    Sensual pleasures are like soap-bubbles, sparkling, evanescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

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    Bonaventure
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    When people commune with God the very sensation of life is transformed, so that they are equipped “to see what is most beautiful, to hear what is most harmonious, to smell what is most fragrant, to ta...

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    Jennifer Tucker
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    Genesis 2:7, 1 Kings 19:11-12 , Ezekiel 37:9-10, Psalm 42:1-2 , Philippians 4:6-7, John 20:22
    Breath has a rhythm to it, a cadence of inhales and exhales. Prayer has a rhythm too, a cadence of inhaling God’s grace and exhaling our fears.

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    Dan B. Allender
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    Revelation 22:17, Isaiah 26:9, James 1:14-15, Philippians 1:23, Galatians 5:17, Romans 7:23
    Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our Lov...

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    Oscar Wilde
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    The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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    Edgar Cayce
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    Galatians 2:20, Acts 9:1-19, Genesis 45:1-15, Luke 10:25-37, Colossians 3:12-14, John 15:5, Galatians 5:22-23
    Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance...

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    George Washington
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    In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time, and…when the torch is put to it, that which is within you must burst into blaze...

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    Elisabeth of Schonau
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    Cinnamon has a naturally pleasing sweetness that delights the taste. At the same time, it also has a sharp strength that inflames the palate of the one who tastes it and that becomes more piquant and ...

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    Rabindranath Tagore
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    Psalm 104:14, Isaiah 61:11, Hosea 14:5, Psalm 127:1, Genesis 2:9
    No, it is not yours to open buds into blossoms. Shake the bud, strike it; it is beyond your power to make it blossom. Your touch soils it, you tear its petals to pieces and strew them in the dust. ...
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