“Christ is the chief object proposed to the sinner in the New Testament. The eye that sweeps round the whole circle of Divine truth must rest in Him as the centre.”

—  John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 64.

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