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The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.

— 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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