“The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.”

—  Dwight L. Moody

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 318.

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American evangelist and publisher 1837–1899

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