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If a man is dying for want of bread, and you give him bread, is that to make him gloomy? That is what Christ is to the soul — the Bread of Life. You will never have true pleasure or peace or joy or comfort until you have found Christ.

— Dwight L. Moody

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I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.

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Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.

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The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.

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Study the Bible topically. If you will study assurance for a week, you will soon find it is your privilege to know that you are a child of God.

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