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There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.

— Thomas Watson

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We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.

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