“Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction — this is the New Testament method, and the true one.”

—  Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 290.

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