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Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
Autobiographer
Cleric
Hymnwriter
Missionary
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Preacher
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Kelvedon
Essex
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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