'Tis not in wealth or honor or sensual things to relieve a spirit heavy laden and weary of the burden of sin; these things have power to increase our guilt by alienating our hearts from God, but none to make our peace with him, to reconcile God to man, and man to God, and to renew the union between the divine and human nature which was broken by the disobedience of our first parents.
No, there is none but Christ, none but Christ is sufficient for these things. But, blessed be God, he is an all-sufficient Savior! And blessed be his holy name that thou hast found him a Savior to thee, my son. O, let us love him much, for we have much to be forgiven.
~ Susanna Annesley Wesley (letter to her son, Charles, 19 October 1738)
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