A. B. Simpson was an author, hymn writer, conference speaker, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman. He founded The Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College.
The following is from his book The Christ Life:
"So also our deeper life is through union with the personal Christ.
"The apostle has expressed this in the sublime paradox, 'I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.'
"Holiness is not personal character slowly attained, but union with the Lord Jesus, so perfect and intimate that He Himself has described it under the figure of the vine and the branches, and adds: 'He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit, for apart from me ye can do nothing.'
"We have not to climb by slow and painful ascent the heights of holiness, but to receive the Holy One Himself to dwell within us and lift us up to all the heights of grace and glory which He Himself has attained.
"'Christ is made unto us of God wisdom, even righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.' And our part is not to struggle after ethical culture, but to receive Him, abide in Him, and have Him transfer to us day by day and step by step His own excellence, His own qualities. His own graces, 'grace for grace.'"
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