“Bring your heart with its profoundest emptiness, its most startling discovery of sin, its lowest frame, its deepest sorrow, and sink it into the depths of the Saviour’s love. . . . Christ’s love touching your hard heart, will dissolve it; touching your cold heart, will warm it; touching your sinful heart, will purify it; touching your sorrowful heart, will soothe it; touching your wandering heart, will draw it back to Jesus. Only bring your heart to Christ’s love.”
- Octavius Winslow, The Sympathy of Christ (Harrisonburg, Va.: Sprinkle Publications, 1994), 165.
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Kim 04.15.08 at 7:33 am
All I can say Laurel is wow. Thanks so much for sharing, as that touched my heart as well. It says it all and says it so very well.
Crystal 04.15.08 at 6:29 pm
Wow that was powerful!
Thanks for sharing!
Iris 04.16.08 at 9:20 am
Just beautiful, Laurel. It is so true through - He can do all the things mentioned in the quote - if we let Him…