“Young converts are sometimes so taken up with religious feeling and doing as to forget the importance even, in reference to that of knowing. "Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."”

—  John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 366.

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