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All my love for the Bible and my knowledge of it came to me from my mother.
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The speaker credits their mother with both their love for the Bible and their knowledge of it. The wording suggests she was the main source of the speaker’s religious affection and understanding, not merely someone who introduced them to the book.
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- In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V.S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India
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