To say that if I had to lose a hundred francs for the love of God, I could not say about that.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Through what deep valleys she has travelled to reach this height, with what loss or gain, I cannot say, but I shall always remember her as she was that night in St. Ansgar, in her pink-mosquito-bar dress, her eyes shining with excitement, her voice vibrant with girlish gladness.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

This was his scheme: He goes down to the line of guards, is challenged, makes a dash through, but returns and gives himself up.
— from The Camp-life of the Third Regiment by Robert Thomas Kerlin

The apostle, therefore, doth implicitly, though to expressly, challenge sin, yea, sin by all its advantages; and then glorieth in the love of God in Christ Jesus, from which he concludeth it shall never separate the justified.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

6 Just as I am--thy love unknown Hath broken every barrier down; Now to be thine, yea, thine alone, O Lamb of God, I come!
— from The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship by Edmund S. (Edmund Simon) Lorenz

We gave the states more power to innovate because we know that a lot of great ideas come from outside Washington and many states are already using it.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Bill Clinton

It is inscrutably hid from mankind who are the elect, until the Holy Spirit influences them with the love of God in Christ Jesus, and this sometimes in the last moments of life.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

However highly we may estimate the impersonal forces that operate for 'the furtherance of the gospel' we cannot but see that in all ages, from the time of Paul down to to-day, the main agents for the spread of the gospel have been individual souls all aflame with the love of God in Christ Jesus and filled with the life of His Spirit.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

The very walks have been carried over forgotten resting-places; and the whole ground is uneven, because (as I was once quaintly told) “when the wood rots it stands to reason the soil should fall in,” which, from the law of gravitation, is certainly beyond denial.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson