The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief. - Dwight Lyman Moody

Study the Bible topically. If you will study assurance for a week, you will soon find it is your privilege to know that you are a child of God.

I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.

If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?