“Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the indispensable steps to salvation. You admit that you have not taken these decisive steps. Then, however near you are, you are not in Christ.”

—  Theodore L. Cuyler

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 229.

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American minister 1822–1909

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