"Every wise workman takes his tools away from……" — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service."

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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