Charles Bradley, Practical and Parochial Sermons, four volumes of the English edition complete in one (New-York: D. Appleton & Company, 1852), Sermon X, "Christ Standing at the Door," p. 49

The Lord Jesus is not like us. We may be kind, but we are not patient in our kindness, not long-suffering. We seek to do others good, but after a little, when they continue obstinate and perverse, we give them up. There…