“Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 228.

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British methodist theologian 1781–1833

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