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398 Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God. —.

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Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us. —.

Lovest thou me? This is the one test question of our religion—for he that loveth is born of God. —.

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No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him. —.