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Charles Simeon Quotes: Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
         

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.


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I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.



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