“As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, "Father, I am falling!" and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.”

—  Theodore L. Cuyler

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 89.

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