“Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.”

— Dwight L. Moody

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 40. (from "How to Study the Bible").

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American evangelist and publisher 1837–1899

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