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I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.

Friedrich Tholuck

The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.

Friedrich Tholuck

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

Friedrich Tholuck

Friedrich Tholuck

Friedrich Tholuck

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Born: March 30, 1799

Died: June 10, 1877 (aged 78)

Bio: Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck, known as August Tholuck, was a German Protestant theologian and church leader.

Known for:

Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount
Hours of Christian Devotion
Commentary on the Gospel of John (1863)

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