“The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves – our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all” – Tryon Edwards
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"The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves – our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all" – Tryon Edwards
"The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves – our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all" – Tryon Edwards
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