“The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.”
— Thomas Carlyle, in Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 85 (1859), p. 131.
“God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.”
— John Piper, as quoted in in Kevin Cross Embezzlement: A True Crime Story (Bridge Logos Foundation, 2010)
“Instead of the copper I shall bring in gold, and instead of the iron I shall bring in silver, and instead of the wood, copper, and instead of the stones, iron; and I will appoint peace as your overseers and righteousness as your task assigners.”
— Isaiah 60:17 (NWT)
“His feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters.”
— Revelation 1:15 (NWT), although the metal has also been translated as "bronze" or "brass"

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