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Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
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Kelvedon
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!
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The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.
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I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.
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The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.
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Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!
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The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.
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The law shows the distance that exists between God and man the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
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The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public.
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We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
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