“The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not — God has not given.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 164.

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