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The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Charles Spurgeon

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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
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Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.
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We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
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Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.
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Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.
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It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.
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