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Charles Hodge Quote

“The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.”

— Charles Hodge

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The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

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Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.

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