Quotemeal: Apr. 21st, 1963

Sunday, April 21, 1963

"Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. The whole work is His, not ours, from first to last."
— Horatius Bonar

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Illustration of Horatius Bonar — "Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. The whole work is His, not ours, from first to last."

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