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How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!

How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!
– D Martyn LloydJones

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