“My friends, there is one spot on earth where the fear of Death, of Sin, and of Judgment, need never trouble us, the only safe spot on earth where the sinner can stand — Calvary.”

—  Dwight L. Moody

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 173.

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