“We are to come to Christ. This is the primal duty. The doctrines are but highways that lead to Him. But when we come to Christ we must receive Him as our Saviour.”

—  Dwight L. Moody

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 154.

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