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Charles Spurgeon Quotes: The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.
         

The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.


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My faith rests not in 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 doing for me.



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It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.



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There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.





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