Quotemeal: Mar. 1st, 2005

Tuesday, March 1, 2005

"We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."
— Charles H. Spurgeon

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Illustration of Charles H. Spurgeon — "We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."

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