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O how different Christ's love to us, from ours to him! We have not to ask him if he loves us. If any one should ever ask that question of Jesus, he would say, "Behold my hands and my feet." He bears on his very body the marks of his love to us. But what have we to point to as proofs of our love to him? What has it done for him; what suffered? O, the contrast! His love so strong, ours so weak; his so ardent, ours so cold; his so constant, ours so fickle; his so active, ours so indolent. So high, so deep, so long, so broad his love, its dimensions cannot be comprehended, it passeth knowledge; while ours is so limited and so minute, it eludes research.

William Nevins — William Nevins, D.D., late pastor of a church in Baltimore, Practical Thoughts (New York: American Tract Society, n.d.; entered 1836), no. 40, "Lovest Thou Me?" p. 205

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