We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy …

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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. ✨ John Owen (1790). An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews;: With the Preliminary Exercitations, p.57
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