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Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible you open its cage and let it roar.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
Autobiographer
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Kelvedon
Essex
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!
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We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.
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A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
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God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
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You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.
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God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
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Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.
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You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.
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Unbelief is the mother of vice it is the parent of sin and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.
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